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em being the Editor for Mortals, which added one-line editing to ed. The story I was told by Bob Eager (?) was that they installed this at Kent, but found fairly quickly that people tended to typo the name as "rm"...
to ed editor em retrocomputing software unix ... on 21 June 2016
Floodgap Retrobits presents the Solbourne Solace: a shrine to the forgotten SPARC
High-performance Sun clones.
to retrocomputing solbourne sun sunos unix ... on 21 June 2016
Unix system programming in OCaml
"This document is an introductory course on Unix system programming, with an emphasis on communications between processes. The main novelty of this work is the use of the OCaml language". This is effectively APUE done in OCaml -- which is a really nice way (in my opinion!) to introduce the language.
to apue functional ocaml programming unix ... on 16 March 2016
"This wiki aims to collect the available historical documents and recollections of Unix into one central place so they can be studied by researchers and Unix enthusiasts alike."
to bell history os-design retrocomputing unix ... on 16 March 2016
jlevy/the-art-of-command-line: Master the command line, in one page
I didn't learn anything remarkable here (although it did remind me about M-# in bash, which I always forget), but this is a good reference for new Unix-like users.
Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System
The text of the Lions book, electronically. (Did you know there's also a Lions commentary on the PCC backend?)
to history lions pdp11 retrocomputing unix ... on 16 March 2016
Ulix OS -- The Literate Operating System
As it says. Reading the papers suggests that it's a very incomplete implementation of Unix, unfortunately.
to literate-programming os teaching unix ... on 31 December 2015
Unix V1 source, bootable in simh.
to history retrocomputing software unix ... on 23 September 2015
What became Minix 3, but this site's interesting because it has an archive of the installation media for all the previous releases. I'd like to get Minix 2 running on my AT at some point; it's probably the most useful of the Unix-likes that can run on a 286 owing to decent networking support.
to minix retrocomputing software unix ... on 13 September 2015
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tasty by Adam Sampson.