<a href="https://fosscomics.com/posts/12.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%202%20-%20The%20Birth%20of%20the%20vi%20Editor/#comic-panel-visual-mode" rel="nofollow">https://fosscomics.com/posts/12.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%202%20-...</a><p>You do <i>not</i> want visual mode on a Tek 4014¹. It's a storage tube and can't modify text on screen.<p>Should have drawn an ADM-3A².<p>¹ <a href="https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/4014" rel="nofollow">https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/4014</a><p>² <a href="https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/File:Lear_Siegler_ADM-3A-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/File:Lear_Siegler_...</a>
Marshall Kirk McKusick, mentioned in this comic, was still committing changes to FreeBSD as of last August:<p>* <a href="https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sbin/restore?id=2cefae4cf34e7d39fc3b27358d7d66a96b3b0056" rel="nofollow">https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sbin/restore?id=2cefae4c...</a>
He regularly attends BSD conferences like BSDCan and EuroBSD.
He's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Its always nice when you meet your heroes and they are amazing people.
If you're a McKusick fan, there's a series of recordings from his classroom lectures about operating systems. I saw some on VHS ages ago in a group setting. They were quite amusing from what I recall, for such an otherwise dry subject.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Kirk_McKusick" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Kirk_McKusick</a>
Looks nice, too bad though it doesn't expose any sort of RSS/Atom feed, if I can't add it to my feed reader I'll soon forget about it.
One of these days I need to write up my non-mythology version of the BSD story and dispel some of the popular retcons.
A lot of people in fediverse would enjoy these. Consider creating an account on techub.social or any of the other tech/foss oriented mastodon instances.
Love this. The human touch of illustration, and classic stories from computer history. I'm going through the entire series up to now, it's great.<p>My favorite panel so far: What is a real programmer? <a href="https://fosscomics.com/posts/6.%20The%20Origin%20of%20the%20Hacker%20Culture/images/real_en.webp" rel="nofollow">https://fosscomics.com/posts/6.%20The%20Origin%20of%20the%20...</a>
Neat. Found an issue in chapter 3, first sentence says electronic computers were during WWII, but they were electro-mechanical… they used relays. Vac tubes came later, ENIAC was finished after the war finished, for example.
It's cute, but why is it a comic? The comic adds nothing to the narrative. It's a tweet-length text history with illustrations, not a comic in the sense of comic strip as medium.
The website is fosscomics.com, they're all comics? They're comics because the author(s) wanted to create comics, not sure how this would be hard to grasp.<p>Most documentaries could be blog posts people can read in 10-15 minutes, yet the medium persists. A mystery? Probably not.
Bill Joy, the unsung hero of the computer revolution.
I like this. Not sure if it matters too much but reverse order made me pause.
> bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.<p>What's em? I thought it was developed from ed.
It absolutely needs like 52 panels. I hope they integrate some politics by panel 1025.
Good comic. Good drawing etc.
Good I like it