La storia di quei ragazzi che fecero Unix. E la particolare giocosità di uno di essi.

Money quote: "Thompson had passed some of his time after the demise of Multics writing a computer game called Space Travel, which simulated all the major bodies in the solar system along with a spaceship that could fly around them. Written for the GE-645, Space Travel was clunky to play—and expensive: roughly US $75 a game for the CPU time. Hunting around, Thompson came across a dusty PDP-7, a minicomputer built by Digital Equipment Corp. that some of his Bell Labs colleagues had purchased earlier for a circuit-analysis project. Thompson rewrote Space Travel to run on it.

And with that little programming exercise, a second door cracked ajar. It was to swing wide open during the summer of 1969 when Thompson’s wife, Bonnie, spent a month visiting his parents to show off their newborn son. Thompson took advantage of his temporary bachelor existence to write a good chunk of what would become the Unix operating system for the discarded PDP‑7. The name Unix stems from a joke one of Thompson’s colleagues made: Because the new operating system supported only one user (Thompson), he saw it as an emasculated version of Multics and dubbed it “Un-multiplexed Information and Computing Service,” or Unics. The name later morphed into Unix."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix

⭕️⭕️⭕️ Migliori Ecommerce Italiani 2020, ricerca ITQF

È stata appena pubblicata la classifica completa Migliori E-Commerce d’Italia 2020/2021, redatta dall’Istituto Tedesco di Qualità e Finanza.

https://blog.transactionale.com/2020/07/14/i-migliori-e-commerce-ditalia-2020-2021-la-classifica-completa/

La norma anti-porno proposta dal senatore Pillon dalla Lega è inutile e parte da premesse sbagliate: non sarà bloccando l’accesso ai siti, peraltro facilmente aggirabili, che i giovani impareranno a vivere una sessualità sana e consapevole. https://t.co/EAtCA8dWVU