Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
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Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
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Re: Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
#2Link to the Caldera license doesn't seem to work. Otherwise, very cool!
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Re: Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
#4Anyone interested in this should definitely read the description of a lot related work of recovery in the excellent paper by Warren Toomey on the restoration of early UNIX artifacts. There was a lot more involved than just doing an OCR scan of old documents, it is really impressive. http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toome...
Re: Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
#5Link to the Caldera license doesn't seem to work. Otherwise, very cool!
It's posted at groklaw here:
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20040224035032...
And here:
Re: Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
#6Also of interest: http://www.tuhs.org/
Re: Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
#7Would be nice if this ran in the browser, if only to avoid bitrot.
Re: Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
#8What a really great example of Vinge's software archeology! I've felt that way on some projects, but obviously nothing like this.
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#9Fabulous!
Re: Restoration of 1st Edition Unix kernel sources
#10Would be nice if this ran in the browser, if only to avoid bitrot.
The (long, long) pre-standard C that it's written in isn't even understood by modern C compilers - bitrot is pretty much a given at this point.