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Diomidis Spinellis
@CoolSWEng@mastodon.acm.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found.

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20251223/?ms261223

blog dds: 2025-12-23 — An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

The discovered Fourth Edition tape (photo credit Rob Ricci)
The discovered Fourth Edition tape (photo credit Rob Ricci)
The discovered Fourth Edition tape (photo credit Rob Ricci)
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