[TUHS] Unix source code archive in the news

I've just finished reading another article in the latest print issue of Communications of the ACM that arrived in my mailbox earlier this week: Jean-Fran{\c{c}}ois Abramatic, Roberto Di Cosmo, and Stefano Zacchiroli Viewpoint: Building the universal archive of source code Comm. ACM 61(20) 29--31 October 2018 https://doi.org/10.1145/3183558 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3281635.3183558 I draw it to your attention to it because it has favorable mention of the Computer History Museum, and of Diomidis Spinellis's work on the Unix source code archive, described in his article A repository of Unix history and evolution Empirical Software Engineering 22(3) 1372--1404 June 2017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-016-9445-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-016-9445-5 The project that Abramatic describe is impressive: a goal of a triplicated complete archive of the world's software history, including both open source and proprietary code. They report holding 200TB of data already, covering 80 million code projects. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------