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authormms <michal@sapka.me>2024-06-05 23:27:55 +0200
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-rw-r--r--content/unix-history/01_multics.md2
-rw-r--r--content/unix-history/02_unix.md10
-rw-r--r--content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md6
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diff --git a/content/unix-history/01_multics.md b/content/unix-history/01_multics.md
index 0cdf7b5..30c59f8 100644
--- a/content/unix-history/01_multics.md
+++ b/content/unix-history/01_multics.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ categories = ["unix-history"]
draft = false
weight = 2002
image_dir = "unix-history"
-image_max_width = 700
+image_max_width = 480
abstract = "Unix history starts with Multics"
shortname = "Part I: Multics"
link = "part-ii-multics"
diff --git a/content/unix-history/02_unix.md b/content/unix-history/02_unix.md
index ca3b29b..52c084b 100644
--- a/content/unix-history/02_unix.md
+++ b/content/unix-history/02_unix.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ categories = ["unix-history"]
draft = false
weight = 2003
image_dir = "unix-history"
-image_max_width = 700
+image_max_width = 480
abstract = "How Unix came to be?"
shortname = "Part II: Unix"
link = "part-ii-unix"
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Try to print a page every few lines - let alone every character.
Even the bravest of the brave would not escape the anger of the finance department.
-## Getting a computer {#getting-a-computer}
+## <span class="org-todo todo TODO">TODO</span> Getting a computer {#getting-a-computer}
After this short intermission, let's return to _UNIX_.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ And since those costed an arm and a leg, end users were paying for time they use
A single game of _Space Travel_ could cost Ken USD 50-75[^fn:3].
Luckily, he was able to find a discarded PDP-7 from another department[^fn:2].
-{{< image class="centered" alt="Two red books containing Volume 1 and 2 of Programmers Manuals for CB Unix" source="https://www.uvlist.net/game-164857-Space+Travel" file="space-travel.png" >}}
+{{< image class="centered" alt="Photo of black screen with lines representing rudimentay space ship viewscreen" source="https://www.uvlist.net/game-164857-Space+Travel" file="space-travel.png" >}}
Space Travel
{{< /image >}}
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ The biggest benefit however was the popularity of this machine - over the next d
You can buy a working one from _eBay_ today.
It won't be easy nor cheap, but definitely possible.
-{{< image class="centered" alt="Two red books containing Volume 1 and 2 of Programmers Manuals for CB Unix" source="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7#/media/File:Pdp7-oslo-2005.jpeg" file="pdp-7.jpeg" >}}
+{{< image class="centered" alt="Photo of a big, old computer the size of a wardrobe. The dominating color is teal." source="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7#/media/File:Pdp7-oslo-2005.jpeg" file="pdp-7.jpeg" >}}
PDP-7
{{< /image >}}
-{{< image class="centered" alt="Two red books containing Volume 1 and 2 of Programmers Manuals for CB Unix" source="https://www.bell-labs.com/institute/blog/invention-unix/" file="thompson-ritchie-pdp11.jpg" >}}
+{{< image class="centered" alt="Photo of two white men. One is standing over and talking the other. The other is sitting in front of a teletype." source="https://www.bell-labs.com/institute/blog/invention-unix/" file="thompson-ritchie-pdp11.jpg" >}}
Ken Thompson and Denis Ritchie working on the legendary PDP-11.
{{< /image >}}
diff --git a/content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md b/content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md
index 51ad920..0807909 100644
--- a/content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md
+++ b/content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ categories = ["unix-history"]
draft = false
weight = 2004
image_dir = "unix-history"
-image_max_width = 700
+image_max_width = 480
abstract = "How Unix came to be?"
shortname = "Part III: Unix Wars"
primary_menu = "unix-history"
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ It's a gold mine and guiding light allowing me to write the following chapter.
The first forks (separately developed versions of _Unix_) came from Bell[^fn:1].
-<https://youtu.be/XuzeagzQwRs?si=VJjyR1A_ofZAoguI&t=1610>
-
AT&amp;T was, as we remember, a telephone company.
Lots of wires coming into centralized buildings, called _switches_.
The first known fork of _Unix_ was intended to automate switching of connections, therefore the very long name - _New Jersey Bell Switch Control Center System (/NJ Bell SCCS).
@@ -87,8 +85,6 @@ _AUSAM_, the _Australian Unix Share Accounting Method_ was the first community m
The work conducted at Universities of Sydney and New South Wales focused on allowing the system to run with huge number of users[^fn:9].
The changes returned to _Unix V7_, but _AUSAM_ was never upgraded to a full 7th ed[^fn:1]
-<https://youtu.be/XuzeagzQwRs?si=ZXhDIsNgliZpfml3>
-
In 1975, Ken Thompson took a sabbatical and took a teaching job at Berkeley University, where he helped install Version 6 of _Unix_.
The OS received quite the attention of students and faculty, resulting in the first version of _BSD Unix_ - _1BSD_.
The lineage of BSD is extensive (not to mention their descendants are what I use) and will be a subject of the next part of our story.
diff --git a/content/unix-history/_index.md b/content/unix-history/_index.md
index 50d2e32..3b77740 100644
--- a/content/unix-history/_index.md
+++ b/content/unix-history/_index.md
@@ -13,9 +13,14 @@ aliases = ["/bsd/history//"]
identifier = "unix-history"
+++
-To say that the history of Unix is long and convoluted would be a huge understatement. It started i's life as a gaming OS dressed as typesetting one in a forgotten alley in an research center, but soon became the most important idea in modern computing history. No other OS had such broad impact on how we work with computers. And despite that, it's mostly a forgotten name. It lives in it's ideas and licenses, but very rarely do we think about running Unix.
-
-This site is a fanpage, and a love letter to computer history. To the brilliant minds and sneazy lawers. To the original, the followers, and imitators.
+To say that the history of Unix is long and convoluted would be a huge understatement.
+It started its life as a gaming OS dressed as typesetting one in a forgotten alley in an research center, but soon became the most important idea in modern computing history.
+No other OS had such broad impact on how we work with computers. And despite that, it's mostly a forgotten name.
+It lives in it's ideas and licenses, but very rarely do we think about running Unix.
+
+This site is a fang, and a love letter to computer history.
+To the brilliant minds and sleazy lawyers.
+To the original, the followers, and imitators.
## Table of contents {#table-of-contents}