20 May
2022
20 May
'22
2:57 p.m.
From an internal $WORK chat:
The ACM Digital Library now offers access to ~50 years of papers/records
without paywall or registration:
https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-…
This includes Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson's seminal 1974 "The UNIX
Time-Sharing System" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/357980.358014), an
interview with one Steve Jobs from 1989 (
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/63334.63336), where he discusses basing
NeXTSTEP on "Berkeley UNIX" (aka BSD) + Mach and how the (previous year's)
Morris Worm "isn't a really serious problem", and goes all the way back to
1951's paper on the UNIVAC (
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1434770.1434772).