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Tom Lyon
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Tom Lyon writes a.k.a. Pugs, a personal blog at akapugs.blog about systems and history. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Roots of Unix for the IBM Mainframe (Part 1) – a.k.a. Pugs”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tom Lyon's posts on the history of Unix on IBM-compatible mainframes, including a 2018 post on an early System/370 Unix port that became an Amdahl product. The comments cite it as background and don't evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tom Lyon's Personal Blog
Most-linked posts?
- The Roots of Unix for the IBM Mainframe (Part 1) – a.k.a. Pugs4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-21
What Hacker News says?
I hadn't heard about that UNIX "Princeton port" before. Thanks! Also TIL: Eric Schmidt worked on that port apparently ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS ), in addition to or around the same time as his ?summer? internship work at Bell Labs as co-author of Lex ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt ). That would have been before he went to Berkeley and then joined Sun as its first software manager. Tom…
Comment linking /2018/05/12/370unixpart1/
on “IBM RISC System/6000 Family”Submitted Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022) as a story · 196 points
HN discussionSee my blog about a much earlier port, which became an Amdahl product. Amdahl's computers were IBM 370 "clones". https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/12/370unixpart1/ You can run Amdahl UTS under the Hercules emulator. See how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56qLxG-sUM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFUHwkbVTJg
Comment linking /2018/05/12/370unixpart1/
on “A Unix System Implementation for System/370 (1984) [pdf]”Submitted My summer at Bell Labs (2018) as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Roots of Unix for the IBM Mainframe (Part 1) – a.k.a. Pugs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3Mb Ethernet and Holy Wars as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Roots of Unix for the IBM Mainframe (2018) as a story · 1 points
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