Posts by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AraZT8IqlARZxwfi8e by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-02-24T15:45:47Z
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OTD 1982: #SunMicrosystems is incorporated. Preliminary business plan (as VLSI Systems, Inc.): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AISiLW3rBJQhArztoQ5p5K12Z4Bj2hru/view?usp=sharing
(DIR) Post #ArlB4XPM1TDOQW0q80 by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-03-05T22:59:26Z
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Multi-user file system -- from "Caltech's New Computing Center" (1963): https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/235/1/computing.pdf
(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 #AscSPGV2i3TBsPMFE0 by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-03-31T06:11:10Z
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"Enterprise" storage?(Control Data OEM catalog, 1975)
(DIR) Post #Au3Ntfrj8PnRiYna8e by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T01:31:25Z
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USENIX artifact #1. @bcantrill @ahl UNICOM '83 was a joint conference between USENIX and /usr/group (a more business-y UNIX group).San Diego with an *all night* Omnimax film festival!One of the few marketing uses of the orange Sun logo.
(DIR) Post #AuEUlADtbhF0KTPyng by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-05-18T00:49:41Z
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OTD 1996: Sun Microsystems purchases "Business Systems Division" of Cray after SGI buys Cray. Becomes the wildly successful E10000 server line. Best acquisition ever?https://t.co/k8bDMQRBnI
(DIR) Post #AujofZBmch7Z5odoi8 by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-06-02T23:38:53Z
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INTERCAL-72 compiler - source code recovered and running! https://esoteric.codes/blog/published-for-the-first-time-the-original-intercal72-compiler-codeOriginal manual: https://3e8.org/pub/intercal.pdfYes, there's a Lyon brother to blame.
(DIR) Post #AvpcJTAbqzxSJKxyy0 by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-06-04T14:34:50Z
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On this day, 1979: Visicalc released for the Apple II.
(DIR) Post #Aw6sRcEIxK8VgAv5yC by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-07-14T00:34:35Z
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You may be cool, but you're not Bell Labs Coding Form cool. (1971) (Don't forget to specify your character set!)Or maybe Cray is your kink. (1976?)
(DIR) Post #AxnastwiGW7inuGmSO by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T14:32:14Z
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OTD 1982: Sun is on the Net!https://www.krsaborio.net/bsd/research/1982/0908.htm#suntember
(DIR) Post #Ay0ycoqKOUliIactmq by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T16:18:47Z
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OTD 1999: #SunMicrosystems announces the Sun Ray thin client. Great blog about its development: https://marcschneider.weebly.com/sun-ray.html
(DIR) Post #B0VQtMU7dDYVln7CGu by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T01:42:20Z
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BIll Joy 1975ish vs. 2025.And there's' the ADM-3 which survives in the fingers of every vi user.
(DIR) Post #B1UwOYCCe5RUqgH2I4 by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2025-12-22T06:15:44Z
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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S: high school hackers from the 60s and 70s. I've known a bunch of these folks - smart cookies.https://spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hackers
(DIR) Post #B30Irt5iQ9dSqpJpJ2 by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2026-02-05T01:11:20Z
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Nice picture I've not seen before from the Bell Labs UNIX room.Joe Condon and Ken Thompson talking about Belle, their chess machine. Dennis Ritchie all the way in the back. Not sure who is in the middle.Happy Birthday to Ken!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_(chess_machine)
(DIR) Post #B3CBKavAaWT99v5CBU by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2026-02-10T23:44:52Z
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Beginning to scan some of my telecom stuff.Here's an ATT map from 1893.