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Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System"

https://playtechnique.io/long/the-unix-time-sharing-system.html
2•gwynforthewyn•42m ago

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gwynforthewyn•42m ago
I'm the writer of this essay.

My subject is some details surrounding the first white paper that Bell Labs published about Unix was "The Unix Time-Sharing System". I wrote what Ken Thompson was doing in between the end of Multics but before he found the "little used PDP-7" that he wrote Unix on, the difference between opening files on Multics and Unix, and what the "comfile" mentioned in the paper is.

I wrote this without AI involvement; I follow Unix history because I love knowing what the history is and what I can learn from it, and I love showing others these sorts of cool details.

I'd love to hear any feedback you might have :)

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Turn Any Screenshot into a Shareable Link

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Training Dyna-2 at million-hour scale, repeatably

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2•julienreszka•27m ago•1 comments

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