* [TUHS] simtel20 unix-c software archive @ 2023-03-02 18:43 A. P. Garcia 2023-03-03 1:03 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: A. P. Garcia @ 2023-03-02 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society There was a well known ftp site in the early 1990s called simtel20.army.mil. It was mostly known as a repository for ms-dos utilities, but it also had a collection of source code to various user-contributed unix utilities. I just uploaded those to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/oak-unix-c--full-mirror-1999.12.14 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: simtel20 unix-c software archive 2023-03-02 18:43 [TUHS] simtel20 unix-c software archive A. P. Garcia @ 2023-03-03 1:03 ` Larry McVoy 2023-03-03 1:06 ` Dave Horsfall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Larry McVoy @ 2023-03-03 1:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: A. P. Garcia; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Wow. There is an ftp site I haven't thought of in 30+ years. Cool find! On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 01:43:57PM -0500, A. P. Garcia wrote: > There was a well known ftp site in the early 1990s called > simtel20.army.mil. It was mostly known as a repository for ms-dos > utilities, but it also had a collection of source code to various > user-contributed unix utilities. I just uploaded those to the Internet > Archive: https://archive.org/details/oak-unix-c--full-mirror-1999.12.14 -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: simtel20 unix-c software archive 2023-03-03 1:03 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy @ 2023-03-03 1:06 ` Dave Horsfall 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Dave Horsfall @ 2023-03-03 1:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society On Thu, 2 Mar 2023, Larry McVoy wrote: > Wow. There is an ftp site I haven't thought of in 30+ years. Cool find! IIRC, there were people still connected waiting for the switch to be flipped... -- Dave ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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