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Archive for October 16th, 2008

October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , , |

In the beginning there was…
CTSS, the Compatible Time-Sharing System, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computation Center and first demonstrated in 1961. It had some interesting features like:

inter-user messaging (what we would call 'e-mail' nowadays)
a program called RUNCOM, that could execute several commands put together in a file - like modern-day shell scripts
RUNOFF, [...]

October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in ,

I am a big fan of Lego. Unfortunately I haven't had much time lately to build anything, but I try to keep up-to-date with the latest news.Yesterday I read that famous department store Neiman Marcus has a new item in it's Christmas Catalog: A life-size sculpture of you made from Lego.

Price-tag: $60,000.00 (does not include [...]

October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , , ,

For some time I've been reading texts on the history of Slackware, Linux, UNIX, etc. It all started with this old Slackware version I found and my quest to get this (and several older) versions working in a Virtual Machine on my modern desktop.
I've been using virtualization and emulation for several years, both professionally and [...]