Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

We can all talk until we are blue in the face about how weird it is for so much money to be spent on servers during the GenAI ...

It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. But it definitely happens because, in the final analysis, people ...

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Abstract: POSIX.1-2024 is simultaneously IEEE Std 1003.1™-2024 and The Open Group Standard Base Specifications, Issue 8. POSIX.1-2024 defines a standard operating system interface and environment, ...

The Olde Jaol Steakhouse and Tavern in Wooster, Ohio, occupies a genuine 19th-century jail building, and while you might expect them to stick to meat-and-potatoes fare, they’ve got a taco salad ...

markdownlint-cli2 vX.Y.Z (markdownlint vX.Y.Z) https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2 Syntax: markdownlint-cli2 glob0 [glob1] [...] [globN] [--config file ...

Nested data parallelism: this feature offers the benefits of data parallelism, concise code that is easy to understand and debug, while being well suited for irregular algorithms, such as algorithms ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also considered to have been lost to the ravages of time. Joyfully, we can ...