Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...
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UNIX V4 is back: I booted into the 1973 OS and it made me weirdly happy

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...
Hackaday

Will The Real UNIX Please Stand Up?

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...
Hackaday

Only Known Copy Of UNIX V4 Recovered From Tape

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...
Linux Journal

UNIX vs Linux: What's the Difference?

In the intricate landscape of operating systems, two prominent players have shaped the digital realm for decades: UNIX and Linux. While these two systems might seem similar at first glance, a deeper ...