Linux like original Unix

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  @hazel_moonshine · 3 years ago

  Those OS could do so much so early I'm impressed. Text-based input is a very powerful UI

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  @nu11man · 3 years ago

  I barely used ed a few times when I was in college, so it's nice to see a non-trivial intro to using it. Thanks for making this.

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  @DevilsHandyman · 3 years ago (edited)

  When I was in high school in the early 80's in the Albuquerque school system at the Career Enrichment Center they had a DEC System 10 and a bunch of TTYs and a single VT100 terminal. You had to get into the room early or be very lucky to get to use the VT100 instead of the TTYs where you would waste reams of paper. DEC was building the VT100 in Albuquerque at the time. The VT100 also supported 132 columns by 14 lines.

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  @lorensims4846 · 3 years ago

  Slackware Linux is the most Unix-like Linux. It&apos;s also the simplest, most UNmodified Linux distribution, and therefore the fastest and most secure.<br>It&apos;s also the oldest living Linux distribution (six months older than Debian).<br>Back in the day, they used to say, &quot;If you want to learn Red Hat, get Red Hat; if you want to learn Debian, get Debian; if you want to learn Linux, get Slackware.

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  @superjames22 · 3 years ago

  This was very fascinating. I can not imagine how many people must have written their own version of awk back then. Everyone must have had their own set of helper programs, I imagine. &nbsp;Thank you for sharing.

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  @BenShengOw · 3 years ago

  makes me appreciate what we have now

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  @mmuww · 3 years ago

  This was a great demonstration, thank you for putting this together

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  @BDJones055 · 3 years ago

  I could watch this all day. Thanks! Keep up the great work.

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  @davestorm6718 · 3 years ago

  So grateful things got easier to do (I worked on these systems in high school then in engineering school back in 1984). They still had a few teletypes at the University and would spit out a small &quot;book&quot; of errors when something went wrong, then we&apos;d get charged for the paper (a big motivator to test your code on paper thoroughly, before typing it in - I recall typing code into one terminal, running the compiler, saving to an 8in floppy, then handing the floppy over to a system operator, who would insert it into another machine to actually run the program)

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  @JoniniTheChickenNugget · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m a 2004 kid and I started coding with a full blown IDE and Java as a kid, this is so cool to see and while ill probably never end up using fortran or unix os seeing the history of terminals and an editor predating even vim and vi is beyond cool.

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  @ropersonline · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pXQVMC770&amp;t=383">6:23</a>: I know this is the wrong place to complain, but I just gotta say, I find it weirdly annoying how the &quot;cool-retro-term&quot; terminal emulator simulates this rolling artefact, because that artefact is something you would NOT have seen back in the day, as that&apos;s ONLY actually visible when you film a CRT without taking special care to dial in your camera&apos;s frame rate just right. (Filming CRTs is hard, and it&apos;s an art.) So this artefact is something which people who only ever saw bad recordings of CRTs think CRTs looked like, but they didn&apos;t. I don&apos;t know why that bothers me this much, but it does.

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  @nono01-e5o · 3 years ago

  History and extra additional context, give you passion and motivation than any other method.

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