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From: b4@gewt.net (Cory Smelosky)
Subject: [TUHS] A repository with 44 years of Unix evolution gets the MSR '15 Best Data Showcase Award
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 17:15:32 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1505251708210.669@meaghan.gimme-sympathy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556351FE.70300@mhorton.net>

On Mon, 25 May 2015, Mary Ann Horton wrote:

> Is the original SVR4 around somewhere (even if still considered trade secret 
> or copyrighted?)
>

I don't believe so, but possibly in some obscure SCADA systems?  Counting 
hobbyists running it on 3B2s or excluding that? ;)

I think only derived systems remain.

> I'm getting ready to have my collection of 9 track magtapes recovered, (Sydex 
> sounds very reasonable) and I find I have 5 AT&T SVR4 tapes among them (all 
> different, I think, but I won't know until I read them.)  They are labeled 
> Proprietary and Copyright, and I claim no special rights to them other than 
> as an ex AT&T employee.
>

All different?  I am very interested.

> Is it worth recovering them?

I believe it is, but I'd recover and archive most anything UNIX.

Any bits of CB Unix on there?

>
>    Mary Ann
>

-- 
Cory Smelosky
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-25 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-18 20:07 Diomidis Spinellis
2015-05-19  9:24 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2015-05-19 10:04   ` Erik E. Fair
2015-05-19 13:19     ` Jacob Goense
2015-05-19 13:48       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2015-05-19 14:36         ` SPC
2015-05-19 15:55   ` Warner Losh
2015-05-19 16:48     ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2015-05-19 17:30       ` Clem Cole
2015-05-19 18:06         ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2015-05-19 18:55         ` cowan
2015-05-20  3:07           ` Andy Kosela
2015-05-19 14:53 ` Clem Cole
2015-05-21  1:42 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2015-05-21 11:50   ` Diomidis Spinellis
2015-05-21 15:09     ` cowan
2015-05-21 15:49       ` Clem Cole
2015-05-21 17:03         ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-05-21 18:04           ` Clem Cole
2015-05-25 16:46             ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-05-25 17:21               ` John Cowan
2015-05-25 21:15               ` Cory Smelosky [this message]
2015-05-26 17:55               ` Scot Jenkins
2015-05-29 14:14                 ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-05-22  0:17         ` John Cowan
2015-05-26 19:12   ` Doug McIntyre
2015-05-21 19:54 ` scj
2015-05-19 15:40 Doug McIlroy
2015-05-19 16:26 ` cowan
2015-05-19 17:29   ` Doug McIlroy
2015-05-21 19:41     ` scj
2015-05-25 19:05 Noel Chiappa
2015-05-26 10:07 Berny Goodheart

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