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diff --git a/content-org/unix-history.org b/content-org/unix-history.org index fa72a8b..6af9f4a 100644 --- a/content-org/unix-history.org +++ b/content-org/unix-history.org @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ #+URL: https://michal.sapka.me/unix-history/ #+STARTUP: show2levels indent logdone -#+HUGO_BASE_DIR: ~/ghq/vcs.sapka.me/michal-sapka-me/ +#+HUGO_BASE_DIR: ~/sites/site-crys-unixhist/ #+HUGO_WEIGHT: auto -#+HUGO_SECTION: unix-history +#+HUGO_SECTION: -* UH :@unix_history: +* UH :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image_dir "unix-history" :image_max_width 480 :EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: image @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ CLOSED: [2024-05-30 Sat 21:03] :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :shortname History of Unix :EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu bsd :EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-r menu menu-info image -:EXPORT_HUGO_LASTMOD: 2024-06-10 +:EXPORT_HUGO_LASTMOD: 2024-09-13 :END: To say that the history of Unix is long and convoluted would be a huge understatement. @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ It lives in its ideas and licenses, but very rarely do we think about running Un #+attr_shortcode: :file header-transparent.png #+attr_shortcode: :alt A group of characters from Unix Surrealism. #+attr_shortcode: :class centered +#+attr_shortcode: :transparency yes #+begin_image noop #+end_image @@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ noop *** Changes +- /2024-09-13/: Moved to crys.site - /2024-06-10/: Added artwork; fixes in Part 3 - /2024-06-09/: Date fixes (IX/386 Xenix) in Part 3 - /2024-06-08/: First release of Part 3 @@ -172,6 +174,7 @@ CLOSED: [2024-03-16 Sat 21:00] **** Bell Labs + Let's pause here and discuss a few things. /Bell Labs/ was a research institute founded by no other, but the famous Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. @@ -182,7 +185,7 @@ The work completed there was awarded 10 times with a Nobel Prize[fn:wikibell]. But it wasn't all pretty. AT&T (owner of the lab) was /the/ telephone company in the USA. It had the /de facto/ monopoly for most of the 20th century. -This led to a consent decree with US Government under which AT&T was forbidden to branch out to other markets. +kkThis led to a consent decree with US Government under which AT&T was forbidden to branch out to other markets. This agreement happened in 1956 and will be very important for our story[fn:hiddenunix]. Another cool tidbit: back then computer screens as we know them now were yet to be invented. @@ -322,6 +325,7 @@ CLOSED: [2024-06-08 Sat 14:43] :EXPORT_HUGO_LASTMOD: 2024-06-10 :END: + This resulted in a very particualar situation. Different organizations came into possesion of a /great/ operating system with which they were able to do whatever they pleased. The original creators, AT&T were unable to sell the software. |