Unix-history-repo Alternatives

unix-history-repo reviews and mentions

• Unix Programmer's Manual Third Edition [pdf]
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2024

  Maybe for someone interesting, too, could be the Repository "Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today" (https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.git) from Prof. Diomidis Spinellis.

• Version 7 Unix cmd/sh/blok.c
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2024
• Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2024

  Every extant Unix has been rewritten since the original AT&T code, Ship of Theseus style. We still consider them members of the Unix family, because they can trace their lineage directly. One could built a Git repo showing every code change from the original Unix release through modern day BSDs, if only we had granular commit info going back that far.

  In fact, it's been partially done for FreeBSD, https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo

  We could in principle do something similar for Darwin (if we had enough of the historical code), which is the core of MacOS, which is based on NeXT, which was based on BSD with a new kernel. That makes MacOS every bit a member of the Unix/BSD family as FreeBSD is.

• The Elegance of the ASCII Table
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2024

  > not sure about other *nixes

  Should be available on any UNIX, it was added to V7 UNIX back in the 1970s: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

  Even before that, it existed as a standalone text file https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/8cf2a84... This still exists on many systems -- for instance as /usr/share/misc/ascii on MacOS

• Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2024
• F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024

  There is also https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo (Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today)

• Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2023

  FWIW, ls in Research-V6 back in 1975 had 10 options. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

  By BSD 3 in 1980 it had 11 options. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-3-S...

  The thing is, we can see even from the 1970s 'ls' how the Unix model doesn't meet the goal "to chain these simple programs together to create complex behaviors".

  There is no option to escape or NUL terminate a filename, making it possible to construct a filename containing a newline which makes the output look like two file entries.

  The option for that was added later.

  There's also the issue that embedded terminal codes will be interpreted by the terminal.

• The original source code of the vi text editor, taken from System V
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023

  This is what it looked like about 7-8 years earlier: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1/e...

• Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2023
• 50 Years in Filesystems: 1974
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 May 2023

  RA92 (1989): 16 ms / 8.3 ms.

  Note that the RL02 (and V7) and RA92 mentioned in the article are separated by about a decade.

  [1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

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