Just discovered that Diomidis Spinellis has created The Unix History repository on GitHub. This repository contains the full source trees of Unix releases over the last 43 years from the Epoch at Bell Labs in 1972 through to the FreeBSD 10.1.0 in 2015.
It’s fascinating to watch Ken and Dennis in action renovating the code base.
Amazing photo of many Unix folks from the 1980’s. I see some familiar faces in there including Dennis Ritchie, and Eric Allman,
Warren Toomey, the maintainer of The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS), recently gave a great talk about the early years of Unix which includes mentions from several familiar faces! If you’re a fan of Unix and its history be sure to check out Warren’s work and TUHS.
I can’t resist posting this 1982 video from the AT&T archives which features many Faces participants from Bell Labs talking about Unix! Watch it all the way to the end as there’s a lot to love here.
