January 2009
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Webstraction 2: from Unix history and Assembly...
I was reading chapter 2 of Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (complete with Lou and Andy-esque image of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie). That chapter mentions the original announcement of Unix from 1974: The UNIX Time-Sharing System, to which we owe much of the current operating system conventions now taken for granted (files, folders/directories, users, etc.). I had a terminal open (in OS...