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Groklaw's 'Grokline' To Document *nix History
trick-knee writes "Grokline hopes to fill in the ownership aspect of the history of UNIX. According to the announcement on Groklaw.net, Pamela Jones intends to flesh out Eric Levenez's UNIX timeline with ownership information. The idea is that this is an application of the open source model in the area of law: if enough eyes see this, someone might be able to anticipate a legal attack and the community may be able to forestall it somehow. We don't really want another SCO foodfight, I don't think."
No, not a dupe. In the previous story, Grokline had not yet gone on-line.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
That first story was to rally the troops to start gathering information and see who would be interested in contributing.
This story is to point out that Grokline has now gone live.
If you had actually clicked the link instead of trying to search through Slashdot's painful search feature, you would have seen the project launched until May 23rd, 2004 (yesterday).
The Bell System Technical Journal, July-August 1978, Vol. 57, No. 6, Part 2, for articles on the "UNIX TIME-SHARING SYSTEM". I find the article on page 2087 particularly interesting ;-). Also look at CP/IX ("Carrier Products Interactive Executive"). It was developed at Case Western Reserve University for IBM's Series/1. IIRC Rice University researchers did a port of BSD to the 80286 (not the 80386, the 286) in the late eighties, too. Also check ISBN 0-13-939845-7, THE UNIX(R) SYSTEM, for accurate history.
Levenez is very cool. He's the only person online with a substantial history of NeXT and NeXTSTEP, for example.
http://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/
1) She's just one person.
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2) This is practically her job now, that's why she does so much; she works for OSRM now, and they pay her to do this + Groklaw now.
3) She does sleep, but she's been known to keep odd hours on occasion.
Speaking of which, here's their how to help page, in case anyone reading this wants to help them out.
[Why yes, I do read Groklaw regularly...
See this link, named Timeline of GNU/Linux and Unix, as it has several info about the issue.
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From: torvalds@yahoo.co.fi (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Keywords: 386, preferences
Message-ID:
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
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Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).
I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them
Linus (torvalds@yahoo.co.fi)
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have