From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 23:34:05 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140602033405.E0EA818C0AD@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: norman at oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
> SP&E published a paper by Don Knuth discussing all the many bugs found
> in TeX, including some statistical analysis.
> From: John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org>
> "The Errors of TeX" was an excellent article.
Thanks for the pointer; it sounds like a great paper, but alas the only
copies I could fine online were behind paywalls.
> From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
> btw. there is a v6 version of fsck floating around.
Yes, we had it at MIT.
> I'm wonder if I can find a readable copy.
As I've mentioned, I have this goal of putting the MIT Unix (the kernel was
basically PWB1, with a host of new applications) sources online.
I have recently discovered (in my basement!) two sets of full dump tapes
(1/2" magtape) of what I think are the whole filesystem, so if I can find a
way to get them read, we'll have the V6 fsck - and much more besides (such
as a TCP/IP for V6). So I think you may soon get your wish!
Noel
next reply other threads:[~2014-06-02 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-02 3:34 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2014-06-02 4:05 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-06-02 6:12 ` arnold
2014-06-03 12:11 ` emanuel stiebler
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-03 17:33 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-06-02 3:18 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-02 2:14 Michael Spacefalcon
2014-06-02 2:51 ` John Cowan
2014-05-31 23:24 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-01 0:17 ` Kevin Schoedel
2014-06-01 22:54 ` scj
2014-06-01 23:48 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-02 1:11 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-06-02 2:10 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-03 16:38 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-05-31 15:55 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 16:18 ` Ron Natalie
2014-05-31 14:19 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 13:30 Norman Wilson
2014-05-31 16:03 ` John Cowan
[not found] ` <20140531161620.GL28034@mcvoy.com>
2014-05-31 17:16 ` John Cowan
2014-05-31 13:15 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 13:23 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-05-31 18:58 ` Tim Newsham
2014-05-31 19:48 ` Clem Cole
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