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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...
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Unix v4 clawed back from a 1970s tape

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...
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52 years later, UNIX V4 has been rediscovered and digitized

Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, and other operating systems can trace their lineage back to the early commercial versions of ...
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Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70

After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and an esteemed computer scientist, died last weekend at the age of 70. Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming ...