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Welcome to my space on the Web

This website is for documenting my journey. To start I will go way back. In my early 20s, I was a NJ Firefighter that would later on join the United States Marine Corps. I was also a ham radio operator with a call sign of KB2TFA and later it became K3RPG. I had an interest […]

What is an Operating System?

WHAT IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM? Operating systems perform two basic unrelated functions, extending the machine and managing resources. The most fundamental system program is the operating system, whose job is to control all the computer’s resources and provide a base upon which the application programs can be written. A modern computer system consists of one […]

Intro to MINIX

When UNIX was young, Version 6, the source code was widely available under the AT&T license. John Lions of the University of New South Wales in Australia wrote a book describing line by line (1996). It was taught in many university system courses. AT&T saw UNIX as a valuable commercial product, so in Version 7 […]