there might still be one at IN-Berlin but I'm not sure. On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 23:45 Sylvain Saboua <[email protected]> wrote:
> To be more specific, at the time I did confuse the PDP-11 > as just the end terminal instead of the whole mainframe. > > I'm not really looking for a PDP-11, although it would > be very nice to see a real one some time. > > Thanks for the resource. > > On 2026-10-09 08:30, Sylvain Saboua wrote: > >> On 8 Oct 2026, at 22:52, jslee <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> looking for a PDP-11 > >> > >> Have you asked on the TUHS list? > >> > >> http://tuhs.org/ > >> > >> John > > > > Finally someone is noticing my signature ! > > This is actually a sarcastic reaction to an also sarcastic > > statement by Theo "the man" himself: > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=157083108327336&w=2 > > > > See my paper on the development of BSD's from UNIX: > > https://www.saboua.xyz/UNIX.html > > > > I was born in 1992 and got my first personal computer in 2006. > > By the end of the year I was installing Linux and quickly > > learned about the better BSD's: > > https://www.saboua.xyz/BSD.html > > > > Life soon after decided I had to be busy with other stuff and > > I kept using Linux but away from computer Science itself for > > roughly a decade. > > > > To this day I keep a personal feud with FreeBSD for having > > scared me away from OpenBSD and hence prevented me from > > becoming a UNIX wizard. > > > > At the time I first wrote the UNIX.html file I was not so aware > > about the very early history of UNIX (and C, might I add). > > This file has already been revisioned and I want to carry > > on editing it in the near future, especially since I stumbled > > upon two excellent videos from the Vintage Computer Federation > > (links below) which allowed me to get a much better grasp. > > > > VCF East: UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan > > https://youtu.be/WEb_YL1K1Qg > > VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan > > https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o > > > > I may now change my signature to something else, > > let me think ... I hope it won't be too long. > > > > Dearly, > > -- > Sylvain Saboua > « J'ai compris que tout le malheur des hommes venait de > ce qu'ils ne tenaient pas un langage clair. J'ai pris le > parti alors de parler et d'agir clairement. » A. Camus > >
