1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

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

Spock levels of fascinating from me. I want to learn how to compile a pdp11 emulator on my mac.

I love this!<p>first time I see people use &#x27;ed&#x27; for work!!!<p>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).<p>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.

Software archeology

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!

1328 bytes for a hello world? BLOAT!

Cool. Can we enter that time portal and live in that alternate reality?

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.