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This is an incredible find. It would be amazingly cool if we could create an emulated environment for compiling and running Unix v4 from these sources.
by gxd 1y ago
This is an incredible find. It would be amazingly cool if we could create an emulated environment for compiling and running Unix v4 from these sources.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 1y agoWild if we found out these early versions were rife with spyware and ads.
- tylerflick 1y agoOr even worse, what if they vibe coded it?
- 3eb7988a1663 1y agoThis will be the linchpin that proves SCO was right all along.
- ndiddy 1y agoSIMH emulates the PDP-11 (along with a ton of other early mini/microcomputers). It should be possible to run whatever's extracted from the tapes on SIMH. For example, the members of the TUHS mailing list were able to get an even earlier set of UNIX sources from 1972 running again, see here for more info: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix-jun72 https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix-jun72
- larsbrinkhoff 1y agoThey were able to get an even earlier set of UNIX sources running on the SIMH PDP-7 emulator. SEVEN.
- bodyfour 1y agoIt's really easy to run for yourself: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/ https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/ Don't expect it to do much, but it's fascinating if you're interested in OS history.
- anthk 1y agoYour parent commenter it's more than aware of Unix retroemulation and ITS...
- notorandit 1y agoFor doing what?
- Pet_Ant 1y agoFor the same reason one visits a museum. If that doesn't make sense to you, then doing this won't either.
- dare944 1y agoFor me, it's a chance to experience what it was like to use and develop software on these systems back in the day. For example, lately I've been writing some small apps and adding new kernel features to a variant of V6 Unix running on my PDP-11/05. It's humbling to see what it really took to be productive on these systems.
- anthk 1y agoSome people even did y2k patches to BSD 4.3. Also, tons of 'modern' software could run on it you can get GCC 2.95 and GCC 3.4. Lynx, for instance. Or gopher and IRC clients. And, maybe, with a bit of luck, Lua and JimTCL.
- iefbr14 1y agoFor nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.
- amelius 1y ago> a huge shortage in memory and storage Maybe this explains why we have to call "creat" to "create" a file.
- SoftTalker 1y agoIdk about creat specifically but the utility names are all terse because you were interacting with the system on a 110-baud teletype.