[TUHS] a possible source for 4.1BSD tapes

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Sun Mar 10 18:20:45 AEST 2019


Isn't 4.1 on Kirk McKusick's disks?

Mike Haertel <tuhs at ducky.net> wrote:

> I noticed that the TUHS archive does not include a 4.1BSD distribution.
>
> Also, while poking around the net, I've found a number of purported
> tape images of 4.1BSD dated 7/10/1981 that look to me to a little sketchy,
> since most contain files dated well into 1982.
>
> So it appears to me that 4.1BSD is semi-lost.
>
> While googling all this, I discovered that the School of Computer Science
> and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin has an online archive catalog
> which lists a couple of 4.1BSD distribution tapes in the "John Gabriel Byrne
> Computer Science Collection".
>
> https://scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/
>
> Perhaps someone from TUHS who lives near Dublin could investigate and
> see if images can be made of these tapes?


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