A 1973 copy of UNIX v4 was recently discovered in a closet at the University of Utah. The tape, which was evidently sent by Ken Thompson himself, is on its way to the Computer History Museum, in the hope that they have the hardware to read it.
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Peter & Faces on FOSS Weekly
Just catching up and wanted to post a link to the great time I had talking about the Faces of Open Source project with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on their show. We covered a lot of ground including my own origin story about how I got involved with open source and the Internet way back when…
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X Window Virus
A joke virus warning from 30+ years ago. X Window was (and still is) revolutionary.
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Profile in IEEE Spectrum
I love IEEE Spectrum magazine and not just because they published a wonderful profile of the project in their February issue. You can read an online version here.