Assembling the history of Unix
Assembling the history of Unix
[Front] Posted Jun 14, 2017 15:52 UTC (Wed) by emptysquare
The moment when an antique operating system that has not run in decades boots and presents a command prompt is thrilling for Warren Toomey, who founded the Unix Heritage Society to reconstruct the early history of the Unix operating system. Recently this historical code has become much more accessible: we can now browse it in an instant on GitHub, thanks to the efforts of a computer science professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business named Diomidis Spinellis.
Click below (subscribers only) for a look at the Unix Heritage Society and what it has accomplished.