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Warner's Random Hacking Blog
Personal blog · bsdimp.blogspot.comsystemsprogramming
Warner's Random Hacking Blog is a personal blog at bsdimp.blogspot.com about systems and programming. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “When Unix Learned to reboot(2)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on Unix and BSD history and bugs, including a 35-year-old patch bug, footage of the PDP-7 that Unix was first built on, and research on how Unix handled writes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Diary of Warner's Hacking Projects and other random thoughts
Most-linked posts?
- When Unix Learned to reboot(2)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-27
- The PDP-7 Where Unix Began3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-11
- A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-17
- A new path: vm86-based venix emulator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-29
- Bootstrapping 2.11 Backwards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-04
- Traditional Unix Toolchains2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-17
What Hacker News says?
Last month there was a patch for a 35-year old bug in patch: http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patc...
Comment linking /2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patch-found-in.html
on “21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird”Submitted A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD as a story · 238 points
HN discussionhttps://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/10/video-footage-of-first-p... has some further speculation... Footage of the PDP-7 that ken would later use to create Unix.
Comment linking /2019/10/video-footage-of-first-pdp-7-to-run-unix.html
on “The PDP-7 Where Unix Began”Submitted In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released as a story · 194 points
HN discussionApparently it is not, or at least, it wasn't, once, if you believe this research: https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/07/when-unix-learned-to-reb...
Comment linking /2020/07/when-unix-learned-to-reboot2.html
on “How does Linux handle writes?”Submitted The PDP-7 Where Unix Began as a story · 107 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old-School Disk Partitions as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new path: vm86-based venix emulator as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Unix Learned to reboot(2) as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why FreeBSD is migrating to Git as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FreeBSD's Subversion to Git Migration: Why? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whither Chroot? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video footage of the PDP-7 on which Unix started as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The PDP-7 Where Unix Began as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted New FreeNAS alpha as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vm86-Based Venix Emulator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 35 Year old bug in patch found as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Traditional Unix Toolchains as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrapping 2.11 Backwards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Unix Learned to Reboot(2) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Traditional Unix Tollchains as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The PDP-7 Where Unix Began as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Identifying the PDP-7 where Unix began as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration – Part 2 – Primer for Users as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrapping 2.11BSD (no patches) from 2.11BSD pl 195 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Traditional Unix Toolchains as a story · 1 points
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