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Unix History Repository

by psuter on 5/21/17, 1:31 PM with 2 comments

• by psuter on 5/21/17, 2:15 PM

  Paper describing the processes of recovering historical versions, attribution, and creation of the repo: https://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/jrnl/2016-EMPSE-unix-histo...

  If you only look at the GitHub repository, look at the branch listing.

  (I'm not the author, just an admirer of the work.)

• by magma17 on 5/21/17, 1:52 PM

  "Latest commit by ken almost 47 years ago"

  Ken Thompson, I suppose...