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52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history

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128 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 08 Nov 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source
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gxd ◴[08 Nov 25 17:07 UTC] No.45858194[source]▶
This is an incredible find. It would be amazingly cool if we could create an emulated environment for compiling and running Unix v4 from these sources.
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notorandit ◴[08 Nov 25 17:40 UTC] No.45858444[source]▶
For doing what?
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1. Aldipower ◴[08 Nov 25 20:02 UTC] No.45859506[source]▶
If you cannot learn from history, you'll have no future too, man.
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2. justmarc ◴[08 Nov 25 21:25 UTC] No.45860158[source]▶
That's why so many of these new age development tools, libraries and abstractions are such incredibly janky pieces of bloat that literally require what a few decades ago was supercomputers.

All downhill from here.