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    Warner Losh

    bsdimp.blogspot.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010

    Warner Losh, a FreeBSD developer, writes about Unix history, PDP-7 and BSD restoration, old toolchains, and FreeBSD infrastructure.

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    What HN says

    Commenters cite it as a source for Unix history, including the reboot(2) research, a 35-year-old bug in patch, and footage of the PDP-7.

    Stats for nerds
    16HN people shared it
    25linked in comments
    776story points
    Jun 2023last shared
    2019people per year2023

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD
      3 people · 240 points · first shared 2020 · 32 comments on HN
    2. 2
      In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released
      1 person · 194 points · first shared 2020 · 33 comments on HN
    3. 3
      The PDP-7 Where Unix Began
      4 people · 114 points · first shared 2019 · 20 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Old-School Disk Partitions
      1 person · 91 points · first shared 2020 · 7 comments on HN
    5. 5
      A new path: vm86-based venix emulator
      2 people · 45 points · first shared 2021 · 9 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found
      2 people · 41 points · first shared 2019 · 8 comments on HN
    7. 7
      When Unix Learned to reboot(2)
      3 people · 24 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Why FreeBSD is migrating to Git
      2 people · 9 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Traditional Unix Toolchains
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Bootstrapping 2.11 Backwards
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • bsdimpOct 2019

      https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/10/video-footage-of-first-pdp-7-to-run-unix.html has some further speculation... Footage of the PDP-7 that ken would later use to create Unix.

    • js2Jun 2023

      Apparently it is not, or at least, it wasn't, once, if you believe this research:

      https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/07/when-unix-learned-to-reboot2.html

    • kryptisktSep 2020

      Last month there was a patch for a 35-year old bug in patch: http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patch-found-in.html

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