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/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]

SCCS roach motel

The Unix Heritage Society

Ken Thompson on the bug that exposed his compiler trojan (2021)

The C Interpreter: A Tutorial for Cin (1988)

Setuid in Unix created to enable a game

My “favorite” magtape story

AT&T; lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry

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

[Unix Heritage Wiki]

The Bourne Shell Source Code

The Unix Heritage Society

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

A Unix System Implementation for System/370 (1978)

An Example Microcoded CPU (2010)

PDP-11 legacy, C and modern architectures

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

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