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 (DIR) Post #AsBtyQZO57EnWo7l0S by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T20:18:58Z
       
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       I'm celebrating my 50th year of using UNIX!Sometime in spring of  '75, my friend Peter (sysadmin for the PDP-11/45) came around shouting "UNIX is Here! UNIX is Here!"I asked "What's a UNIX?" and he showed me the 1974 CACM article about UNIX.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsBtyVLkJGISLwmQwC by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T20:19:04Z
       
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       At the time, the only time-sharing system at Princeton was APL\360 - which was very cool but very weird.  And I had spent the previous summer wrestling with IBM's TSO which was not at all cool, or even weird - just bad.So UNIX looked very nice - file redirection! pipes! background processing!
       
 (DIR) Post #AsBtyZeKK7XJgjVKSG by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T20:19:11Z
       
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       UNIX arrived courtesy of Dr. Jeff Ullman and Bell Labs.  Ullman and Al Aho at Bell were deep into their decades-long collaboration (see recent Turing awards), so Ullman convinced Princeton to adopt it.I remember it as being Version 6 of UNIX, a little ahead of the official release.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsBtyeKIvzUWC5AuRM by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T20:19:16Z
       
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       My nickname from high school was Pugs, or Pugsley, inspired by The Addams Family.My brother Jim, 3 years ahead at Princeton, made sure everyone knew me as Pugs.So Peter, as UNIX admin, gave me the userid 'pugs'.   Which has been constant all these years!
       
 (DIR) Post #AsBtyijyWUOzsrDT0a by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T20:19:23Z
       
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       I was amazed to learn that UNIX was written in C, very unlike all the IBM systems I had used.  That got me thinking about porting UNIX to the mainframe, which you can read all about here: https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/12/370unixpart1/
       
 (DIR) Post #AsBtynFfka8LsK4pyC by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T20:19:28Z
       
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       And going deep into UNIX and portability landed me a job at Bell Labs in the summer of '77, which you can read all about here: https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/16/belllabspart1/After I got the offer from Bell, a friend asked how it felt to be "Set for Life".It felt good.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsKX4Po2nu9Yatj5QO by pernia@cum.salon
       2025-03-23T01:00:58.943618Z
       
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       @aka_pugs this dude RAPES kids