2026-09-12 15:04 UTC
Advanced Programming the #UNIX Environment
Week 1: UNIX History
We cover the early days at Bell Labs, USL vs BSDi, the birth of the BSDs and #Linux, and how we got from Ken Thompson playing "Space Travel" on a PDP-7 to Unix running on your phone, fridge, and TV.
https://youtu.be/3H7SQWTR6Dw
Scroll along through it all here: https://levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf
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@jschauma@mstdn.social 2026-09-13 19:16
Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment Week 1, Unix Basics We write our first trivial program, which promptly segfaults and gives us a chance to explain function forward declarations and maneuvering man pages and set our default compiler flags ("-Wall -Werror -Wextra"), then proceed to write the most trivial versions of cat(1), ls(1), and even a rudimentary shell including a signal handler. https://youtu.be/w3spRzZ8bSA Slides: https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/01-basics.pdf