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1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected


[TUHS] 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected Yufeng Gao via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org Tue Feb 18 19:31:55 AEST 2025 Hi everyone, First-time poster here. Near the end of last year, I did some forensic analysis on the DMR tapes (https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes) and had some fun playing around with them.

Near the end of last year, I did some forensic analysis on the DMR tapes ( https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes) and had some fun playing around with them. Since it aligns with V1 in terms of syscalls, has the V2 core size and can run V2 binaries, I consider it a "V2 beta". w hello.c 33 q # cc hello.c I II # ls -l a.out total 3 153 sxrwrw 1 root 1328 Jan 1 00:02:12 a.out # a.out hello world!

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