Someone somewhere said that they wouldn't believe the UNIX V4 recovery was real unless they saw video of the tape being read on an original drive.
So: here's the video of the tape being read on an original drive, last week.
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Liam Proven
Liam Proven
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Tall, once dark, black-clad atheist skeptic SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. Grizzled internet veteran, online since 1985. Current primary email is from 1991.
All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.
The oldest Unix written in C was successfully recovered from tape this weekend -- and here it is running on IRIX.
The amazing bit is the contents of the big window in the middle, for children under 50, *not* the windows themselves.
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Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful
Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.
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Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful
: Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
«I effectively have over $30,000 worth of previously-active “bricked" hardware. My iPhone, iPad, Watch, & Macs cannot sync, update, or function properly.»
— Paris Buttfield-Addison
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20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectivel...
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
<- I recently wrote a short piece about the early days of PC Unix. This is what Unix was like before then, in the minicomputer era.
One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics | Gábor Nyéki
Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era
Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops
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Rebuilding Visi On reveals how Apple defined the GUI era
: Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops
FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built
Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process
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FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built
: Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS
Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve
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Version 6.18 of the Linux kernel is here
: Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve
LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.
Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.
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LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.
Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.