For all my #unix #sysadmin and computer history nerds: “52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C”
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/unix-v4-recovered-from-randomly-found-tape-at-university-of-utah-only-known-copy-of-first-os-version-with-kernel-and-core-utilities-written-in-c
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And #TIL you can emulate a PDP-11 on modern hardware, or run Unix V4 under Irix https://simh.trailing-edge.com/
Not only can you emulate them - there are people making small-scale replicas (like 1/3 and 1/4 size) of the front panels, complete with smoked glass and old-school LED matrix displays and a huge row of 1970's switches. They're PURDY.
What I haven't seen are any new modern-manufacture analogs for paper-tape or punched card.
@tbortels @darkuncle Our high-school minicomputer had front-panel switches. I'm being overly romantic when I say that initiating the bootstrap by toggling and loading three 16-bit instructions before pressing RUN feels a little like learning to start a fire with a flint and a stone.
And yet...
Many thanks to @ricci for this thread! https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115747843169814700
plans to implement systemd on it have been killed with extreme prejudice. ;)
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