We lost computer architect Gene Amdahl on this day in 2015; responsible
for "Amdahl's Law" (referring to parallel computing), he had a hand in the
IBM-704, the System/360, and founded Amdahl Corporation (a clone of the
360/370 series).
-- Dave
PUP sent out an announcement of BWK's latest tome
(https://press.princeton.edu/titles/14171.html) I am bemused that
his accolades do not mention UNIX (and yes, target audience and all
that).
N.
The infamous Morris Worm was released in 1988; making use of known
vulnerabilities in Sendmail/finger/RSH (and weak passwords), it took out a
metric shitload of SUN-3s and 4BSD Vaxen (the author claimed that it was
accidental, but the idiot hadn't tested it on an isolated network first). A
temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir /tmp/sh".
Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere.
-- Dave
Anyone interested in this? I did a quick Google, and cannot find any
record of this.
http://pdp10.kilonet.org/images/decus-1982-fall-coversheet.jpg
I have a few microfiches containing the entire thing (I assume).
It's a pain to scan with my current scanner but I'll do it if someone is
genuinely interested.
thanks!
art k.
On 08/31/2018 10:24 AM, Cornelius Keck wrote:
> But, I liked the way to have physical control over my setup, still do,
> so there was, is no reason to switch at this time. Given different
> circumstances, I might.
I've actually seen / discussed some options to combine the static IP
that you get with inexpensive VPSs with the only dynamic nature of some
residential connections.
I'd be happy to talk about details on COFF if people are interested.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
The IBM 305 RAMAC was introduced to the public on this day in 1956. The
first commercial computer with a hard drive that used magnetic disk
storage, it weighed over a ton.
-- Dave
Google was founded on this day in 1998, by a couple of uni students who
went on to become millionaires; the verb "to google" has in fact entered
the lexicon, but these days I use DuckDuckGo (remember: you are not
Google's customer, but their product).
There is some confusion over the name "Google"; some say that someone
couldn't spell the mathematical number "googol" (10**100), and others
claim that is was a joke on their part, which I suspect is revisionist
history.
I would appreciate a correction, and need I point out that a web reference
may not cut the mustard?
Thanks.
-- Dave
We gained computer pioneer John Mauchly on this day in 1907; he was best
known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the world's first computers.
-- Dave
