Comment by dansquizsoft

8 days ago

Hey! So I'm actually the builder of UNIXV4.dev (via my company Squiz Software Pty Ltd).

I went to bed last night with a couple of people poking around… woke up to a whole lot more. Appreciate the load test!!

I’ve fixed the rate-limit issues people were hitting. There’s still a global cap of 100 concurrent sessions + per-user limits to keep things stable during spikes.

I’ve also added an “Attributions & Acknowledgements” section.

The backstory is wild: UNIX v4 being recovered from a ~1973 tape at the University of Utah after being effectively “lost” for decades. Reading about the recovery and then poking around in it under SIMH on my PC is what pushed me to wrap it up as a public, browser-based terminal that other people could take a look at - and hopefully get as much out of it as I did.

Have fun exploring it all (especially all the primitive bits — remember: use "chdir" instead of "cd", and "#" is backspace).