UNIX Fourth Edition

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• lproven 41 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.org

  Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321
• userbinator 3 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?
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  • 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...
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    • topspin 4 minutes ago
      It is interesting to note that that github repo may be the first time the code in question has ever been version controlled.
• rasyidi 3 hours ago
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  • Adesany 2 hours ago
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