I've assembled some notes from old manuals and other sources
on the formats used for on-disk file systems through the
Seventh Edition:
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~norman/old-unix/old-fs.html
Additional notes, comments on style, and whatnot are welcome.
(It may be sensible to send anything in the last two categories
directly to me, rather than to the whole list.)
Hi all, I'm hoping to cut the tuhs.org e-mail from the old server over to the
new server tomorrow, at around 0400 UTC May 18 2002. I'll stop accepting
e-mails on the old server first, then cut over and start accepting e-mails
on the new server.
If something goes pear shaped, you'll be able to contact me on my Gmail
address warren.toomey@.... and on my DoctorWkt twitter account.
Cheers & fingers crossed :-)
Warren
List readers may enjoy a new article about the history of the Go
programming language published today:
Russ Cox, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ian Lance Taylor, and
Ken Thompson
The Go programming language and environment
Comm. ACM 65(5) 70--78 May 2022
https://doi.org/10.1145/3488716https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3488716
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What was the first "clone" functional Unix (i.e. an OS not derived
from genetic Unix code but highly compatible with genetic Unix)? Idris
is the earliest such OS of which I am aware (at least AFAIK it's not a
genetic Unix), but was it actually the first? Similarly, which was the
first "outer Unix-like" system (i.e. one with strong Unix influence
but significantly incompatible with functional Unix)? Off the top of
my head the earliest such system I can think of is Thoth (which
predates Idris by almost 2 years), but again I'm not sure if it was
actually the first.
Today I bit the bullet and dropped my many articles and electronic
documents related to my technical explorations into Zotero. I was tired
of constantly having to remember where the documents were located and I
wanted to be able to curate them better (I tried git for a while, back
when, but I'm not a fan of non-text data in my repos, and it wasn't
really much better than the base file system approach). I've been using
Zotero for years now, for academic works, but not for technical works
unrelated to my research. I realized the man-years of effort to clean up
the entries that I had created in about 30-40 seconds of exciting drag
and drop, just about the time I deleted them from their original
locations. I think the work will pay off in due time, but we'll see.
Then I thought, surely, I'm not the first person to have had this
problem... it occurred to me that y'all must have faced this very
problem, a few years in, back in the late 70's, early 80's. That is,
document management. What did you do, variously, considering both text
and non-text?
Will
