An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

ChrisArchitect | 23 hours ago

Ongoing posts about the tape discovery and work: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115748594116050292

ChrisArchitect | 23 hours ago

Previously:

Unix v4 Tape Found

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321

NitpickLawyer | 23 hours ago

> (The results also show that I need to examine the apparent timing mismatch between the First and Second Editions.)

Something something, naming things, cache invalidation, timestamp mismatches and off-by-1 errors :)

userbinator | 22 hours ago

It could just be as simple as being a later "final" copy of V1, made when it was "done".