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Greg A. Woods
Found via the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033863.htmlMon May 25 13:34:10 2026 - permalink -- http://www.robohack.ca/~woods/
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virtual museum of operating systems
This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.Thu May 21 11:31:30 2026 - permalink -
A custom emulator-independent launcher is provided, and all OSes and emulators are pre-installed and pre-configured. The launcher includes a snapshot feature to quickly revert broken installations back to a working state. Hypervisor installers and shortcuts to run the VM on Windows, macOS, and Linux are also included.
Announced on the COFF mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2026-May/002313.html- https://virtualosmuseum.org/
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Retrotechnology Article Library - Typewritten Software
Manuals for old software. Announced on TUHS https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033788.htmlThu May 21 11:25:02 2026 - permalink -- http://www.typewritten.org/Manual/
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Which time-sharing operating systems can be run via emulation today?
Blog about time-sharing operating systems. Found via Lars Brinkoff's post https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-10/c/HsfFnIp2Ucc on the PiDP-10 Google group.Mon Apr 13 08:57:01 2026 - permalink -- https://timereshared.com/os-list/
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FLY ROCKET FLY
FLY ROCKET FLY ist eine wahnwitzige Mischung aus Abenteuergeschichte und Politthriller, aus Lausbubenstreich und Wirtschaftskrimi – angesiedelt zwischen „Fitzcarraldo“, „Lohn der Angst“ und „Tim und Struppi auf dem Mond“.Tue Mar 24 10:29:50 2026 - permalink -
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG- http://otrag.com
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Back to the egg - Emacs in the 70s · Curious Musings
Found via https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=browse;diff=1;id=Carnival → https://curious.port111.com/2025/11/01/emacs-carnival-december-the-people.htmlThu Mar 12 09:46:57 2026 - permalink -
http://curious.galthub.com/blog/typewriters/ might be useful to get math rendering working on my blog.
http://curious.galthub.com/blog/bashrc/ uses /etc/hostname to determine the name of the host, maybe I should use that on Android?- http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2025-12-10/#fnref:2
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Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It’s 1973
Nice article about a buffer overflow in su(1) in the recently discovered v4 unix.Mon Jan 5 22:52:02 2026 - permalink -- https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/
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[TUHS] Why did Unix succeed? "simple, robust and performant" or "hackable: source available and extensible"?
Timeline of Unix and related technologies.Tue Nov 25 08:47:45 2025 - permalink -- https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-November/032813.html
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Emacs on ITS, Lisp machines
Announced on the PiDP-10 Google group https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-10/c/0jW05fcTikkSat Nov 1 14:29:21 2025 - permalink -- https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ojic3t/early_history_1978_of_emacs_from_pdp10_its_archive/
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Personal Editor 3 - text editor similar to IBM's PE2
Written in Snobol 5. Found via https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PE2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Editor amdMon Oct 13 15:09:06 2025 - permalink -- http://snobol5.org/pe3doc.htm
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Chris Siebenmann's blog/wiki
Many interesting articles, some of them have a "via" link. Found via the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2025-September/002225.htmlFri Oct 3 07:57:17 2025 - permalink -- https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/__Index
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Parsing: a timeline -- V3.1
A history of parsing techniques. Bob McClure's TMG (see https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2014-September/006765.html) is not mentioned.Fri Aug 8 16:57:06 2025 - permalink -
See also the author's blog https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/- https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3#footnote-42-ref
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'Re: [9fans] parm server: user interaction' - MARC
Explanation of TOPS-20's COMND% JSYS (Jump to SYStem, essentially system call) command completion mechanism.Fri Aug 8 10:46:57 2025 - permalink -- https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=175464100923546&w=2
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CrystalLabs — Davor Ocelic's Blog
Tech blog about Unix, GNU/Linux, software development, systems administration, cloud, open source, privacy, and ethics.Wed Jul 30 08:35:41 2025 - permalink -
Apart from https://www.crystallabs.io/unix-books-papers-videos/, it has interesting articles about version control, how to set up Open AFS- https://www.crystallabs.io/
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Foundational Unix Papers, Books, and Videos
Collection of links to many articles and books about Unix. Mentioned by Clem Cole on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-July/032201.htmlThu Jul 17 07:04:40 2025 - permalink -- https://www.crystallabs.io/unix-books-papers-videos
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Telebahn - an interactive online museum of Packet Switched Public Data Networking
Found on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-June/032159.htmlTue Jun 24 23:08:20 2025 - permalink -- https://x25.org/#
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collection of hobby projects, playing with mostly obsolete technology
Found via Liam Proven's page https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/the_lgp30_retrospective/Sun Jun 22 21:02:28 2025 - permalink -- https://www.e-basteln.de/
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A museum of all things computational: mechanical, mainframe, mini, micro
Forum about retrocomputing, found via a link on Norbert Landsteiner's site https://masswerk.at/lounge.phpSun Mar 16 19:18:17 2025 - permalink -
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/some-materials-on-early-c-and-the-history-of-c/3016 looks interesting.- https://retrocomputingforum.com/
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Mailüfterl emulator
The emulator can be used on https://norbertkehrer.github.io/mailuefterl/mailuefterl.html, information on the Mailüfterl computer can be found onThu Mar 13 16:31:05 2025 - permalink -
https://norbertkehrer.github.io/mailuefterl.html
See the blog entries "Floating Point Library for the Mailuefterl Computer and More Original Mailuefterl Programs
Thursday, August 31, 2017" and
"Mailuefterl Emulator in JavaScript
Monday, July 10, 2017" on https://norbertkehrer.github.io/
"In the PDP series DEC
launched machines like the PDP-10, on which the C programming language
and the first adventure game were developed, or the extremly successful
PDP-11, on which the first Unix was written." on https://norbertkehrer.github.io/pdp8.html is wrong, report it. C was created on the pdp-11.- https://github.com/norbertkehrer/norbertkehrer.github.io/tree/master/mailuefterl
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THE DECSYSTEM-20 AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (1977-1988)
Found via a link on https://statespace.dev/tops-10.htmlSat Jan 25 22:24:25 2025 - permalink -- https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/dec20.html