procrastination diagram

Those interesting papers I mentioned last week

Seem to be a series of articles on a design patterns and anti-patterns in historical Unix, by Neil Brown, called "Ghosts of Unix Past":

Now, many of the things mentioned here I'm not sure count as "historical Unix" but that may just be a(nother) sign that I'm getting old. Still definitely worth the read.

In the historical UNIX vein, someone ported 7th edition Unix to the Intel platform (It has at least a couple of 2BSDisms, judging by the documentation but I haven't investigated further).

I have a feeling there was something else, but I can't come up with it right now.

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