October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Bell Labs, MIT, UNIX, history | No Comments »
In the beginning there was…
CTSS, the Compatible Time-Sharing System, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computation Center and first demonstrated in 1961. It had some interesting features like:
inter-user messaging (what we would call ‘e-mail’ nowadays)
a program called RUNCOM, that could execute several commands put together in a file – like modern-day shell scripts
RUNOFF, [...]
October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Lego, Lego Sculptures | 2 Comments »
I am a big fan of Lego. Unfortunately I haven’t had much time lately to build anything, but I try to keep up-to-date with the latest news.Yesterday I read that famous department store Neiman Marcus has a new item in it’s Christmas Catalog: A life-size sculpture of you made from Lego.
Price-tag: $60,000.00 (does not include [...]
October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Linux, Random Thoughts, Slackware, UNIX, history | 2 Comments »
For some time I’ve been reading texts on the history of Slackware, Linux, UNIX, etc. It all started with this old Slackware version I found and my quest to get this (and several older) versions working in a Virtual Machine on my modern desktop.
I’ve been using virtualization and emulation for several years, both professionally and [...]
Dutch guy living in Brazil. Has worked in the IT business since it was invented (well, almost...). Interests: Slackware, Lego, Star Wars.
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