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An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

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The "UNIX v4 tape" running in simh PDP11 emu on IRIX

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UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah

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Unix v4 Tape

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52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C

Unix V4 Update

An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

Unix v4 tape raw binary image recovered

Here you can find the contents of the Unix v4 tape ready for bootstrapping

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Unix V4 tape found at The University of Utah

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