akirby Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/ The cool oil part is in 1987 I worked on an updated version of the first Unix business application. Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan and Korn were legends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvrsvt Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Ha I read that the other day and didn't even notice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmantpw Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 He's also a published author on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Richard-Jensen/e/B00PXNAA9A/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcartwright99 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Uh you guys have me by a few years! My first real exposure to UNIX (not linux) was some dinosaur Solaris boxes. Virtually no training on an overnight support desk. I had to verify there were no issues with the scheduled jobs and to do any sort of jump starting if any issues. I eventually became decent at it. They eventually got decommed and were not once rebooted. I think it was over 12 years running continuously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theoldwizard Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 If you read the article and know the history, Unix was the result of the failed Honeywell Multics OS. Multics, itself, was a result of Honeywell trying to finally cut all its linkage to GCOS (originally GECOS, which Honeywell inherited when they bought GE's computing division). GCOS was heavily used in Ford's computer engineering center (actually just a part of one floor of Building 2) in the 70s/80s and was commonly call FCOS because of all of the additional utilities that the Ford staff had added. For reference, those "donut" looking things on the front of the compute are "DECtape I". Small reels of 1/2" wide magnetic mylar tape. Much "higher density" and easier to carry than a stack of punch card and more durable than paper tape. Sort of the 1960s version of a floppy disk ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted September 4, 2019 Author Share Posted September 4, 2019 22 hours ago, jcartwright99 said: Uh you guys have me by a few years! My first real exposure to UNIX (not linux) was some dinosaur Solaris boxes. Virtually no training on an overnight support desk. I had to verify there were no issues with the scheduled jobs and to do any sort of jump starting if any issues. I eventually became decent at it. They eventually got decommed and were not once rebooted. I think it was over 12 years running continuously. When we switched from dumb terminals to sun workstations it was life changing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcartwright99 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, akirby said: When we switched from dumb terminals to sun workstations it was life changing. I can imagine. I remember accessing the VAX system and programming in Cobol on green screen dummy terminals. Nothing like trying to program in a busy computer lab in college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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