Warner's Random Hacking Blog

December 8, 1984 Dennis Ritchie posted the following: I happened to dredge up an old notebook and found a listing of the PDP-7 ve...

Quick Update Thanks for the tips! Warren Toomey pointed me at the Kermit in 4.3BSD: It was 4C(057). But it was a trimmed copy of C-Ke...

Unix C-Kermit 4x Versions As part of my efforts to reconstruct my Venix system to sources, I recently went on a hunt for old versions o...

More Venix reconstruction work With the simulator working well enough to run many / most of the Venix binaries (the C compiler being a no...

April 2020 Venix update I've had a bit of spare time lately and have refocused back onto Venix. I've found a number of bugs, ...

My EuroBSDCon talk on the fist 10 years of Unix is up.  EuroBSDCon Unix at 50, V7 at 40  I hope you enjoy.

Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found In my prior blog post, I traced Ken's scrounged PDP-7 to SN 34. In this post I'...

Serial Number of First Unix System In preparation for a talk on Seventh Edition Unix this fall, I stumbled upon a service list from DEC fo...

Now That's Weird I was trying to compile some ancient code I pulled off the net. It is related to the Venix stuff I've been doing...

Adding other directories Sometimes you need to add commits from other places / directories to a repo you've slimmed down. This post u...

Splitting up a git repo -- Single directory FreeBSD has a large, sprawling svn repo that was once a CVS repo. There are times that things...