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/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf] (tuhs.org)
96 points by vitplister 3 days ago | past | 53 comments
SCCS roach motel (tuhs.org)
70 points by rdpintqogeogsaa 30 days ago | past | 16 comments
The Unix Heritage Society (tuhs.org)
20 points by fuzztester 7 months ago | past
The uniqueness of DMR's C compiler (thread) (tuhs.org)
4 points by 082349872349872 7 months ago | past | 1 comment
If forking is bad, how about buffering? (tuhs.org)
3 points by vitplister 8 months ago | past | 1 comment
Ken on early Unix rand generator (tuhs.org)
3 points by fisheuler 8 months ago | past | 2 comments
The Unix Heritage Wiki (tuhs.org)
3 points by udev4096 11 months ago | past
"I'm pretty sure OpenBSD at least still has nothing like busybox." (tuhs.org)
4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Dec 26, 2023 | past | 1 comment
The Awk Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's New? (tuhs.org)
4 points by vitplister on Sept 11, 2023 | past
You are not supposed to understand this (tuhs.org)
2 points by hggh on Aug 29, 2023 | past
Ken Thompson on the bug that exposed his compiler trojan (2021) (tuhs.org)
224 points by throwawaylinux on June 19, 2023 | past | 33 comments
The C Interpreter: A Tutorial for Cin (1988) (tuhs.org)
34 points by mananaysiempre on May 28, 2023 | past | 11 comments
Setuid in Unix created to enable a game (tuhs.org)
93 points by zdw on Feb 4, 2023 | past | 24 comments
My “favorite” magtape story (tuhs.org)
91 points by zdw on Jan 29, 2023 | past | 40 comments
Font rasterisation the hard way (scanning e- microscopes and sneakernet) (tuhs.org)
2 points by 082349872349872 on Jan 23, 2023 | past
You can't trust your toothbrush unless you carved it yourself (tuhs.org)
4 points by 082349872349872 on Jan 20, 2023 | past | 1 comment
The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (2017) (tuhs.org)
198 points by networked on Jan 14, 2023 | past | 110 comments
AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry (tuhs.org)
439 points by asjo on June 25, 2022 | past | 177 comments
Bill Jolitz has died (tuhs.org)
199 points by cperciva on April 8, 2022 | past | 82 comments
The Unix Heritage Society (tuhs.org)
14 points by ecliptik on Feb 20, 2022 | past | 1 comment
Apple's first Posix certification 1991 (tuhs.org)
2 points by voidmain0001 on Jan 3, 2022 | past
Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language (tuhs.org)
97 points by vitplister on Nov 26, 2021 | past | 100 comments
Jörg Schilling has died (tuhs.org)
542 points by stargrave on Oct 11, 2021 | past | 94 comments
Bootable Disk Images of PDP-11 Unix V6, V7, 2.9BSD and 2.11BSD (tuhs.org)
9 points by guerrilla on Oct 11, 2021 | past | 2 comments
Macros to make C resemble Algol68 (1979) (tuhs.org)
2 points by EamonnMR on July 7, 2021 | past
A reverse-engineered description of Adobe Type 1 fonts. (1989) (tuhs.org)
63 points by fanf2 on Feb 11, 2021 | past | 14 comments
The Unix Tree: Browse Source code and manuals of various old versions of Unix (tuhs.org)
2 points by varbhat on Jan 29, 2021 | past
Bug (tuhs.org)
1 point by todsacerdoti on Dec 31, 2020 | past
Unix NEWS and;login: archives from the 1970s (tuhs.org)
2 points by fanf2 on Nov 20, 2020 | past
The Unix Tree (tuhs.org)
2 points by hwayne on Nov 19, 2020 | past

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