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Setuid in Unix created to enable a game

My “favorite” magtape story

RIP Bill Jolitz (1957 – 2022), co-author of 386BSD

Lorinda Cherry died recently

Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language

RIP Jörg Schilling

Recreation of the PDP-7 UNIX TMG compiler compiler

A reverse-engineered description of Adobe Type 1 fonts. (1989)

The 2038 bug

[TUHS] Which years saw the introduction of (1) #! and (2) symbolic links

The Unix Tree

Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation

John Gilmore: History of Cygnus's Growth

[TUHS] where did "main" come from?

Australian Unix Users Group (AUUG) newsletter collection, 1978 to 2005

The most surprising Unix programs

It was Bill Joy's password, not Ken Thompson's, that had a control character

An Example Microcoded CPU (2010)

PDP-11 legacy, C and modern architectures

ed(1) on Seventh Edition UNIX: an editor in 1762 lines

Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch (2016)

[TUHS] What UNIX Artifacts Are Still Missing?

X and NeWS history

Early Linux filesystem reliability

Release of 8th, 9th and 10th Editions Unix Source Code

How Unix made it to the top

V7/usr/games/lib/fortunes

Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014)

Prehistoric PDP-7 Unix Source Code

Origin of the SCCS delta format

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