[SPG_Active_Members] Saving Unix versions

[Randall Neff]

"In this its 40th year of operating system life, some Unix stalwarts
are trying to resurrect its past. That is, they are taking on the
unenviable and difficult job of restoring to their former glory old
Unix software artifacts such as early Unix kernels, compilers and
other important historical source code pieces. In a paper to be
presented at next week's Usenix show, Warren Toomey of the Bond School
of IT is expected to detail restoration work being done on four key
Unix software artifacts all from the early 1970s — Nsys, 1st edition
Unix kernel, 1st and 2nd edition binaries and early C compilers. In
his paper, Toomey states that while the history of Unix has been
well-documented, there was a time when the actual artifacts of early
Unix development were in danger of being lost forever."

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Randall.