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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.

  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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