From: wobblygong at gmail.com (Wesley Parish)
Subject: [COFF] Old non-Unix software and manuals.
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 11:32:51 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACNPpeb5dAR2W71fvwp6sw8OD7MxjwOXxV13mZekR-gsuRvESQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200308202230.GB3091@server.rulingia.com>
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I'm in favour of preserving both the software and the newsletters.
History _is_ important, and knowledge of history doubly so when you
have predatory IPR scavengers on the loose, as we saw in the infamous
The SCO Group versus Linux and the World case.
Wesley Parish
On 3/9/20, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> As many of you may be aware, Bruce D. Evans <bde at freebsd.org> died in
> mid-December. I am currently looking through his digital estate on
> behalf of his family and the FreeBSD Project.
>
> I have discovered that he kept an extensive collection of 5¼" floppy
> disks. I haven't looked through them but they appear to include
> things like OS-9 and Hitachi Peach files (and presumably Minix stuff,
> though I haven't found any of his Minix work). He also has a
> selection of newletters from an Australian Peach users group. Is
> there any interest in this material from a historicial perspective?
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-08 20:22 peter
2020-03-08 20:30 ` krewat
2020-03-09 7:30 ` lars
2020-03-08 20:34 ` imp
2020-03-08 21:16 `
2020-03-08 22:32 ` wobblygong [this message]
2020-03-08 23:07 ` spedraja
2020-03-09 22:10 ` dave
2020-03-08 23:48 ` wkt
2020-03-09 3:18 ` dave
2020-03-09 3:39 ` imp
2020-03-09 4:18 ` dave
2020-03-20 12:55 ` tih
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