Why DNS is still hard to learn, Unix support 50 years ago, ZFS Replication tools, Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB, Old Computer Challenge v3, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Why DNS is still hard to learn (https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/)
Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” (https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/LetterFromRitchie.pdf)
News Roundup
ZFS Replication tools (https://evilham.com/en/blog/2023-ZFS-replication-tools/)
Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB (https://rubenerd.com/between-isa-and-pci-we-had-vlb/)
Old Computer Challenge v3: postmortem (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-17-old-computer-challenge-v3-part2.html)
Beastie Bits
• [Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 on the OpenSIMH PDP-11 Emulator](https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/videos/2023/07/14/installing-and-using-research-unix-v7-in-open-simh-video.html)
• [Cheat Sheets](https://github.com/cheat/cheatsheets/tree/master)
• [Introducing BSD Cafe](https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/15rt7em/introducing_the_bsdcafe/)
• [Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230829051257)
Tarsnap
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