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Sebastien F4GRX wrote:
> And here is my question, is any of you aware of original B source code
> archives? or are in touch with people that would know?

Not for Unix, but.

Steven Johnson went on a sabbatical from Bell Labs to Waterloo
University and took B with him.  A group of people there formed a
company which still offers B for GCOS.
https://www.thinkage.ca/gcos/expl/b/manu/manu.html

The original AberMUD was written by Alan Cox (of Linux fame) et al in B.
A paper listing exists but has yet to be scanned.  I collected some
scraps here:
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/abermud/tree/master/abermud1

Some other people also writing B compilers:
https://github.com/aap/b
https://github.com/DavidSkrundz/B