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@ Lars Wirzenius
2025-03-06 05:03:39
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqlksxw7gqy3tyvzvzv4wn0he6045z7k68nhnlec9tz4njkk3xdfmqaxvklh My first Unix was Ultrix (version 2.0-1). It was on the machine that my CS department gave students access to when they took the Unix programming course. Reliably, every time the course reached the mknod system call, the machine would be even more unstable than usual. The kernel would reliably crash within fifteen minutes if an unprivileged user would use that system call. Fun times.