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15 points kaycebasques | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.414s | source

The Dream Machine is giving me a great appreciation of the time-sharing revolution and ARPANET. What else should I read? Any timeframe or topic is OK, so long as it's strongly related to the history of computing.
1. netfortius ◴[] No.42165239[source]
Brian Kernighan's newly released "UNIX: A History and a Memoir"
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2. amyfp214 ◴[] No.42211145[source]
I second this. It's a wonderful read. I particularly enjoyed learning the history of various unix commands, for example, I was unfamiliar with the grep family of commands until the book explained it clearly. It also gives in more detail the tale of Ken Thompsan reverse engineering a printer firmware, CPU, and assembly language, and rewriting the entire firmware to be 1000x better, in about an hour.