Hacker News
- Setuid in Unix created to enable a game https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-February/027644.html 24 comments
- My “favorite” magtape story https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-January/027546.html 40 comments
- The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (2017) https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/011552.html 110 comments
- Bill Jolitz has died https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-April/025643.html 82 comments
- Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-November/024695.html 100 comments
- Jörg Schilling has died https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-October/024523.html 94 comments
- A reverse-engineered description of Adobe Type 1 fonts. (1989) https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-February/023136.html 14 comments
- John Gilmore: History of Cygnus's Growth https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-May/021225.html 10 comments
- The most surprising Unix programs https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-March/020664.html 176 comments
- It was Bill Joy's password, not Ken Thompson's, that had a control character https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-October/019125.html 55 comments
- An Example Microcoded CPU (2010) https://minnie.tuhs.org/CompArch/Tutes/week04.html 10 comments
- X and NeWS history http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-September/010471.html 102 comments
- Early Linux filesystem reliability http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/009935.html 92 comments
- How Unix made it to the top http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html 122 comments
- Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2014-August/004890.html 64 comments
- Some PDP-7 source code http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-February/006622.html 8 comments
- Source code and manuals of many old Unixes http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl 4 comments
- The Unix Tree http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl 7 comments
Lobsters
- Lorinda Cherry died recently https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-February/025390.html 8 comments historical , person , unix
- RIP Jörg Schilling https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-October/024523.html 4 comments person
- The 2038 bug https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-December/022658.html 5 comments historical , unix
- Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-August/021937.html 5 comments historical , unix
- The most surprising Unix programs https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-March/020664.html 19 comments unix
- PDP-11 legacy, C and modern architectures https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2018-June/014191.html 4 comments hardware , unix
- ed(1) on Seventh Edition UNIX: an editor in 1762 lines http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7%2Fusr%2Fsrc%2Fcmd%2Fed.c 2 comments historical , unix
- Why Linux's Filesystem Recovery Beat Other Unixes http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/009935.html 5 comments historical , linux , unix
- Release of 8th, 9th and 10th Editions Unix Source Code http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-March/009354.html 9 comments historical , programming , unix
- Ted Ts'o: "As an OS engineer, I deeply despise these optimization tricks, since I personally I care about correctness and not corrupting user data far more than I care about execution speed" https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tuhs@tuhs.org/message/3QHH5NS3A2MD45YAAYPSA5VY57ZJL3PO/ 133 comments c_programming
- Sad News https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-April/025643.html 2 comments freebsd
- Jörg Schilling has passed due to Kidney Cancer https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-October/024523.html 88 comments linux
- The most surprising Unix programs https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-march/020664.html 12 comments linux
- The most surprising Unix programs https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-march/020664.html 79 comments programming
- A handfull of ancient Unix distros (30+ years old), some with source. http://minnie.tuhs.org/unixtree/ 21 comments programming
- The source code of the original S. Bourne shell http://minnie.tuhs.org/unixtree/v7/usr/src/cmd/sh/ 2 comments programming