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Slackware/Linux/Unix (pre-)history (Part 1: The origins)
October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Bell Labs, MIT, UNIX, history | No Comments »
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, [...]
Lego Sculpture - You are the model!
October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Lego, Lego Sculptures
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 [...]
Slackware/Linux/Unix (pre-)history (Part 0: Introduction)
October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Linux, Random Thoughts, Slackware, UNIX, history
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 [...]