https://wiki.tuhs.org/ 2026-04-23T23:17:59+00:00 https://wiki.tuhs.org/ https://wiki.tuhs.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2022-09-28T15:51:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=anecdotes:a.out_percolate&rev=1664380290&do=diff a.out? (taken from Dennis Ritchie's home page) Back around 1970-71, Unix on the PDP-11/20 ran on hardware that not only did not support virtual memory, but didn't support any kind of hardware memory mapping or protection, for example against writing over the kernel. This was a pain, because we were using the machine for multiple users. When anyone was working on a program, it was considered a courtesy to yell text/html 2022-12-27T13:22:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=anecdotes:clem_cole_student&rev=1672147344&do=diff Clem Cole's Student Experiences I was a student, but working as a 360/TSS programmer and PDP-10/20 programmer in the CMU computer center. I also did some hacking for the EE department mostly for free for them -- as EE was my major. My girlfriend at the time was working for an EE prof and she got me to bring UNIX over from CS (EE had a 11/20's and a prototype 11/34 [not a 34A]) and CS of course had numerous 11's as they were building C.mmp and writing Hydra. [CMU/CS actually ran UNIX on the text/html 2022-07-07T23:22:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=anecdotes:not_expected_to_understand_this&rev=1657236134&do=diff /* You are not expected to understand this */ (taken from Dennis Ritchie's home page) Every now and then on Usenet or elsewhere I run across a reference to a certain comment in the source code of the Sixth Edition Unix operating system. I've even been given two sweatshirts that quote it. text/html 2022-09-12T20:28:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=anecdotes:pipes&rev=1663014523&do=diff The Day Ken Installed Pipes Dick Haight, was present the day that pipes were introduced into Unix. “I happened to have been visiting the research crew the day they implemented pipes. It was clear to everyone practically minutes after the system came up with pipes working that it was a wonderful thing. Nobody would ever go back and give that up if they could help it." text/html 2022-12-27T13:54:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=anecdotes:start&rev=1672149250&do=diff Interviews Mike Mahoney's Oral History of Unix Anecdotes on Unix Unix at the `Labs' The Day Ken Installed Pipes Values of beta will give rise to dom! You are not expected to understand this a.out? Unix in the 1970s Clem Cole's Student Experiences Fear and Loathing on the Unix Trail by Doug Merritt, Ken Arnold and Bob Toxen text/html 2016-01-11T23:27:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=anecdotes:values_of_beta&rev=1452554826&do=diff Values of Beeta (taken from Dennis Ritchie's home page) In Sixth Edition Unix, the mv command could produce this diagnostic: values of β will give rise to dom! This was noticed by some and is recorded in a WWW page or so, which are mostly copies of the same compilation of rarely encountered and striking error messages from various systems.