From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Mike Haertel <tuhs@ducky.net>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] a possible source for 4.1BSD tapes
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:38:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190311173845.GU31834@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201903111728.x2BHSNqG045196@ducky.net>
Other than for history's sake, I don't see the value of 4.1, it wasn't
a great release (even though Masscomp did their changes to 4.1c if I
remember correctly. Clem?). 4.2 was the first release that I remember
being pretty solid and 4.3 improved on that.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:28:23AM -0700, Mike Haertel wrote:
> I contacted Kirk. He was surprised to learn that the copy of 4.1 in
> his CSRG archive is not, in fact, 4.1.
>
> Also he says that the contents of the existing CSRG archive disks
> are all he has; apparently the dumps of old distribution tapes to
> disk were hastily done on the way out the door as CSRG was being
> shut down.
>
> He suggested I inquire with TUHS for a copy, so evidently he does not
> read this list. His other suggestion was to reconstruct from SCCS files.
>
> I think at this point the preservation community has essentially all
> the bits from tape 1 of the 7/10/81 release (in somewhat scattered
> form needing to be reassembled into a usable distribution tape image).
>
> The contents of tape 2 seem to be altogether lost (unless someone is
> able to recover it from surviving media).
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-11 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-10 7:31 Mike Haertel
2019-03-09 23:24 ` Nigel Williams
2019-03-10 11:18 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-03-10 20:55 ` Warner Losh
2019-03-10 22:53 ` Mike Haertel
2019-03-11 0:25 ` Al Kossow
2019-03-11 1:15 ` Mike Haertel
2019-03-11 5:46 ` Jason Stevens
2019-03-11 17:28 ` Mike Haertel
2019-03-11 17:38 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-03-11 18:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-03-11 18:41 ` Clem Cole
2019-03-12 6:21 ` Nigel Williams
2019-03-12 6:32 ` Jason Stevens
2019-03-12 12:44 ` arnold
2019-03-11 21:47 ` Al Kossow
2019-03-23 17:50 ` reed
2019-03-24 4:19 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-03-10 8:20 ` arnold
2019-03-10 15:50 ` Mike Haertel
2019-03-10 19:54 ` arnold
2019-03-10 20:33 ` Warner Losh
2019-03-25 17:19 Richard Tobin
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