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Novi Sad@feddit.org to unix like operating system lovers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish ·
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Tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973) found in a storage room at the University of Utah – potentially the only complete copy

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Tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973) found in a storage room at the University of Utah – potentially the only complete copy

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Novi Sad@feddit.org to unix like operating system lovers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish ·
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Attached: 1 image While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing
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    21 hours ago

    And it is still better than Windows 11

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      8 hours ago

      And it is still better than Windows 11

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      Is it tho? That’s a LONG time for magnetic bits to remain stable.

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        You could erase that tape and it’d still be better than Window 11

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          just received my new ssd. installing it this weekend, then I’m choosing a distro (or two), then testing phase. If so goes well, I plan to say bye bye to Windows before the end of the year.

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