From: Nigel Williams <nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com>
To: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] a possible source for 4.1BSD tapes
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:24:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACCFpdzUEpKbm1nKkLs-bkEWYPkry4kEGbLwHKKR+gAeM19_sw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201903100731.x2A7VZJF033832@ducky.net>
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 6:52 PM Mike Haertel <tuhs@ducky.net> wrote:
> Also, while poking around the net, I've found a number of purported
> tape images of 4.1BSD dated 7/10/1981 that look to me to a little sketchy,
> since most contain files dated well into 1982.
Thanks Mike, you've raised an interesting question as to whether there
is an original (untainted) 1981 4.1BSD release available? I see that
the easily found distribution has modifications running into 1982.
Berkeley 4.1 VAX/UNIX (Amnesia-Vax)
login: root
Last login: Sun Jan 21 18:57:55 on console
Welcome to Berkeley Vax/UNIX (4.1bsd revised 1 Sept. 1981)
Erase is delete
Kill is control-U
# ls -l /
total 795
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 57 Mar 18 1981 .cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 90 Mar 21 1981 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 99 Apr 30 1981 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 32 Mar 15 1981 arch
drwxrwxrwx 2 root 160 May 10 1982 bill
...elided...
On this page: http://gunkies.org/wiki/4.1_BSD
the file references
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/UCB_CSRG/4.1_BSD_19810710.zip
and that has files from Feb-1982.
The Trinity College appears to be cataloguing many interesting
software artefacts. I would be interested in some of the other items
they show on their web-page.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-10 10:25 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 [this message]
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
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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