Tag: unix
How Sony’s Forgotten Computers Helped Shape the PlayStation
Enviado por FabioThe UNIX machine that pushed Sony into unexpected territory 04/06/25 | hace 1 días | obsoletesony.substack.com
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
Enviado por FabioHow do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here\'s the fascinating story behind it. 25/01/25 | hace 132 días | blog.codingconfessions.com
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
Enviado por FabioNT is often touted as a \"very advanced\" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case? 29/09/24 | hace 249 días | blogsystem5.substack.com
X Window System At 40
Enviado por FabioOn 19th June the X Window System celebrated its 40th birthday. Wikipedia has a comprehensive history of the system including the e-mail Bob Scheifler sent announcing the first release... 05/07/24 | hace 336 días | blog.dshr.org
State of the Terminal | g.p. anders
Enviado por FabioI have been using Vim/Neovim as my full time text editor for close to 10 years. I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal and have become very aware of the many flaws and idiosyncrasies of this... 17/05/24 | hace 385 días | gpanders.com
The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops
Enviado por FabioIt takes more than open source, it takes open standards and consensus 28/01/24 | hace 495 días | www.theregister.com
The History of XENIX
Enviado por FabioA Failed Future and a Long Life.\r\nIn the November 1980 issue of BYTE, the publication reported that Microsoft signed an agreement with Western Electric for the rights to develop and market UNIX from... 27/12/23 | hace 527 días | www.abortretry.fail
The mass extinction of UNIX workstations – OSnews
Enviado por FabioBack in the ’90s and very early 2000s, a whole market segment of computers existed that we don’t really talk about anymore today: the UNIX workstation. They were non-x86 machines running one of... 13/12/22 | hace 905 días | www.osnews.com
17 Stunning & Modern UNIX Tools
Enviado por FabioLast week I finally switched my laptop to Linux (I choose Pop!_OS and I’m very happy with it). After installing all the tools and software… 02/03/22 | hace 1191 días | thelicato.medium.com
What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified?
Enviado por FabioNo suelo poner cosas de Quora aquí pero como el que responde es el experto en Kernel de MacOS y cuenta de forma excelente la historia para tratar de hacer el sistema operativo un \"Unix\" hecho y... 20/01/22 | hace 1232 días | www.quora.com
Una semana utilizando uno de los SO más obtusos: Plan 9
Enviado por FabioQuedado en el tiempo, Plan 9 fue un sistema unix creado por los Bell Labs y este caballero le dedicó una semana de su vida para usarlo, en lo posible, y entenderlo. 15/01/21 | hace 1602 días | thedorkweb.substack.com
Por qué los servidores ARM no prosperaron.
Enviado por FrostwarriorY los entornos tipo UNIX, salvo por Linux, perdieron el terreno que tenían. 22/02/19 | hace 2295 días | www.realworldtech.com