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It's not an old file. It's a new file resulting from running OCR on a PDF of a physical manual. Clipping off the filename in the original URL, you'll find a dir
by knome 11y ago
It's not an old file. It's a new file resulting from running OCR on a PDF of a physical manual. Clipping off the filename in the original URL, you'll find a directory [1] with an explanation in the README [2]
[1] http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/ http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Mc...
[2] http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/Readme http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Mc...
- dang 11y agoThank you, that's a critical bit of context.
- lisper 11y agoIndeed, and it's a good illustration of a flaw in the HN comment ranking algorithm: this "critical piece of context" is at the bottom -- and likely will stay there -- because it's the child of a heavily downvoted comment.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoSo include it in a new top-level comment and everyone wins.