I once saw a talk from Brian Kernighan who made a joke about how in three weeks Ken Thompson wrote a text editor, the B compiler, and the skeleton for managing input/output files, which turned out to be UNIX. The joke was that nowadays we're a bit less efficient :-D
I wonder who else has to deal with ed also... recently I had to connect to an ancient system where vi was not available, I had to write my own editor, so whoever needs an editor for an ancient system, ping me (it is not too fancy).
amazing work by the creators of this software and by the researchers, you have my full respect guys. those are the real engineers!
I love browsing the tuhs mailing list from time to time. Awesome to see names like Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, and a bunch of others with perhaps less recognizable names but who were involved in the early UNIX and computing scene.
Can anyone provide a reference on what those file permissions mean? I can make a guess but when I searched around, could not find anything about unix v2 permissions. ls output looks so familiar, except for the sdrwrw!
Recovering RF tapes, even a simple text file demonstrates buffer space that is not being used by the dos, or .iso file. Even in a 2.11 BSD distro, a default tiling and window manager has to be installed on the native OS. So yes, going with KDE or the X11 wm.
1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected
(tuhs.org)410 points by henry_flower 19 February 2025 | 133 comments
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first time I see people use 'ed' for work!!!
I wonder who else has to deal with ed also... recently I had to connect to an ancient system where vi was not available, I had to write my own editor, so whoever needs an editor for an ancient system, ping me (it is not too fancy).
amazing work by the creators of this software and by the researchers, you have my full respect guys. those are the real engineers!