UNIX Fourth Edition 7 days ago (squoze.net) 7 comments dcminter Reply Add to library lproven 26 minutes ago Just for what it's worth, I tried to explain the context and the historical importance when I wrote about the original discovery of the tape, and about the recovery:https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_t...https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successf... dcminter 7 days ago This is the result of the tape from 1973 found at the University of Utah being sent over to the Computer History Museum for retrieval by bitsavers.orgPrior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321 userbinator 4 hours ago It still amazes me that even with all this functionality, it runs on a system with only 64k of RAM. zatkin 4 hours ago Has anyone managed to extract out the C source files and upload them into some browsable UI, e.g. GitHub or GitLab? Someone 4 hours ago I think they’re in the Unix history repo. Browsing there, it may be https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/Rese... rasyidi 4 hours ago [flagged] Adesany 2 hours ago [flagged]
lproven 26 minutes ago Just for what it's worth, I tried to explain the context and the historical importance when I wrote about the original discovery of the tape, and about the recovery:https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_t...https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successf...
dcminter 7 days ago This is the result of the tape from 1973 found at the University of Utah being sent over to the Computer History Museum for retrieval by bitsavers.orgPrior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321
userbinator 4 hours ago It still amazes me that even with all this functionality, it runs on a system with only 64k of RAM.
zatkin 4 hours ago Has anyone managed to extract out the C source files and upload them into some browsable UI, e.g. GitHub or GitLab? Someone 4 hours ago I think they’re in the Unix history repo. Browsing there, it may be https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/Rese...
Someone 4 hours ago I think they’re in the Unix history repo. Browsing there, it may be https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/Rese...
Just for what it's worth, I tried to explain the context and the historical importance when I wrote about the original discovery of the tape, and about the recovery:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_t...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successf...
This is the result of the tape from 1973 found at the University of Utah being sent over to the Computer History Museum for retrieval by bitsavers.org
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321
It still amazes me that even with all this functionality, it runs on a system with only 64k of RAM.
Has anyone managed to extract out the C source files and upload them into some browsable UI, e.g. GitHub or GitLab?
I think they’re in the Unix history repo. Browsing there, it may be https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/Rese...
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