[TUHS] Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Jun 2 13:34:05 AEST 2014
> From: norman at oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
> SP&E published a paper by Don Knuth discussing all the many bugs found
> in TeX, including some statistical analysis.
> From: John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org>
> "The Errors of TeX" was an excellent article.
Thanks for the pointer; it sounds like a great paper, but alas the only
copies I could fine online were behind paywalls.
> From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
> btw. there is a v6 version of fsck floating around.
Yes, we had it at MIT.
> I'm wonder if I can find a readable copy.
As I've mentioned, I have this goal of putting the MIT Unix (the kernel was
basically PWB1, with a host of new applications) sources online.
I have recently discovered (in my basement!) two sets of full dump tapes
(1/2" magtape) of what I think are the whole filesystem, so if I can find a
way to get them read, we'll have the V6 fsck - and much more besides (such
as a TCP/IP for V6). So I think you may soon get your wish!
Noel
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