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.
What HN saysCommenters 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.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The PDP-7 Where Unix Began4 people · 114 points · first shared 2019 · 20 comments on HN
- 2A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD3 people · 240 points · first shared 2020 · 32 comments on HN
- 3When Unix Learned to reboot(2)3 people · 24 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 4A new path: vm86-based venix emulator2 people · 45 points · first shared 2021 · 9 comments on HN
- 5Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found2 people · 41 points · first shared 2019 · 8 comments on HN
- 6Why FreeBSD is migrating to Git2 people · 9 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7Bootstrapping 2.11 Backwards2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Traditional Unix Toolchains2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 9In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released1 people · 194 points · first shared 2020 · 33 comments on HN
- 10Old-School Disk Partitions1 people · 91 points · first shared 2020 · 7 comments on HN
- 11FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 12New FreeNAS alpha1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 13Whither Chroot?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14Traditional Unix Tollchains1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration – Part 2 – Primer for Users1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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js2 · 2023-06-30
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
kryptiskt · 2020-09-17
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…
bsdimp · 2019-10-10
https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/10/video-footage-of-first-pdp-7-to-ru… has some further speculation... Footage of the PDP-7 that ken would later use to create Unix.