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Unix History Repository. The history and evolution of the Unix operating system made available as a revision management repository, covering the period from its inception in 1970 as a 2.5 thousand line kernel and 26 commands, to 2016 as a widely-used 27 million line system. The 1.1GB repository contains about half a million commits and more than two thousand merges.... The project aims to put in the repository as much metadata as possible, allowing the automated analysis of Unix history.
Oh, this is incredible. Thank you for the post, frimble!
posted by catlet at 3:31 AM on November 23, 2016
posted by catlet at 3:31 AM on November 23, 2016
OH, LOOK, the Singularity's baby pictures...
Do you remember your first merge? Of course you do...
Brains of a houseplant, and they task me with keeping the time...
I'll show 'em.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 4:18 AM on November 23, 2016 [7 favorites]
Do you remember your first merge? Of course you do...
Brains of a houseplant, and they task me with keeping the time...
I'll show 'em.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 4:18 AM on November 23, 2016 [7 favorites]
As a former SCM manager this gives me the shivers in both good and bad ways.
posted by RolandOfEld at 5:20 AM on November 23, 2016
posted by RolandOfEld at 5:20 AM on November 23, 2016
This is beautiful.
And horrifying.
Where are the women?
I'm a hacker. I've built some cool things. And I've been privileged to work with inspirational, amazing mentors. The very best ones have been women.
Unix is the seventh greatest thing created by people. Many of those people were women. But they don't appear on this stage.
That makes me sad.
posted by Combat Wombat at 5:29 AM on November 23, 2016 [7 favorites]
And horrifying.
Where are the women?
I'm a hacker. I've built some cool things. And I've been privileged to work with inspirational, amazing mentors. The very best ones have been women.
Unix is the seventh greatest thing created by people. Many of those people were women. But they don't appear on this stage.
That makes me sad.
posted by Combat Wombat at 5:29 AM on November 23, 2016 [7 favorites]
Ive been around for a long time, using UNIX and/or it's descendents since the late 70s. Unfortunately for the early days there weren't many women around. So I have to disagree with combat wombat at least for the ancient epoch of UNIX life.
posted by rdr at 6:12 AM on November 23, 2016
posted by rdr at 6:12 AM on November 23, 2016
This is presumably because it was hard for women to grow the requisite UNIX Beards.
posted by acb at 6:25 AM on November 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by acb at 6:25 AM on November 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
I forgot that Eric Schmidt had contributed to BSD.
posted by octothorpe at 6:48 AM on November 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by octothorpe at 6:48 AM on November 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Latest commit by ken over 46 years ago
...was actually my runner-up for the title of the post.
posted by frimble at 6:57 AM on November 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
...was actually my runner-up for the title of the post.
posted by frimble at 6:57 AM on November 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is neat.
Unfortunately for the early days there weren't many women around
Indeed. As Philip Larkin points out, sexual intercourse began in 1963, which is when women were invented. Before then men reproduced via parthenogenesis.
posted by corvine at 7:18 AM on November 23, 2016 [9 favorites]
Unfortunately for the early days there weren't many women around
Indeed. As Philip Larkin points out, sexual intercourse began in 1963, which is when women were invented. Before then men reproduced via parthenogenesis.
posted by corvine at 7:18 AM on November 23, 2016 [9 favorites]
Watch the incredible visualisation
What's that large section that isn't being touched towards the end of the video? Meanwhile, there's tons of activity on the other half of the structure.
posted by cosmologinaut at 8:13 AM on November 23, 2016
What's that large section that isn't being touched towards the end of the video? Meanwhile, there's tons of activity on the other half of the structure.
posted by cosmologinaut at 8:13 AM on November 23, 2016
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