F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix (fosscomics.com)
114 points by joonehur 8 hours ago
JdeBP 25 minutes ago
Marshall Kirk McKusick, mentioned in this comic, was still committing changes to FreeBSD as of last August:
* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sbin/restore?id=2cefae4c...
alexfortin an hour ago
Looks nice, too bad though it doesn't expose any sort of RSS/Atom feed, if I can't add it to my feed reader I'll soon forget about it.
lioeters 3 hours ago
Love this. The human touch of illustration, and classic stories from computer history. I'm going through the entire series up to now, it's great.
My favorite panel so far: What is a real programmer? https://fosscomics.com/posts/6.%20The%20Origin%20of%20the%20...
mixmastamyk 3 hours ago
Neat. Found an issue in chapter 3, first sentence says electronic computers were during WWII, but they were electro-mechanical… they used relays. Vac tubes came later, ENIAC was finished after the war finished, for example.
rjsw 2 hours ago
Colossus used valves.
defrost 2 hours ago
They're likely thinking of Zuse's Z3 of 1938 rather than the somewhat later Max Newman / Tommy Flowers build of 1941-1943.
BiscuitEater546 10 minutes ago
Good I like it
jolmg 6 hours ago
> bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.
What's em? I thought it was developed from ed.
nagaiaida 6 hours ago
stackghost 4 hours ago
> By the way, 'em' stands for 'editor for mortals' - I christened it that after Ken Thompson visited our lab at QMC while I was developing it and said something like: "yeah, I've seen editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them, I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing".
Literally an insane opinion.
tosti 4 hours ago
BikiniPrince 6 hours ago
It absolutely needs like 52 panels. I hope they integrate some politics by panel 1025.