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UNIX V4 is back: I booted into the 1973 OS and it made me weirdly happy

I booted UNIX V4 (first C rewrite) in a PDP‑11 emulator. It feels tactile—no backspace, staggered print, slower typing, and ...

Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known ...

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...
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9front is a weird Unix-based operating system with an even stranger history

Familiar names like Windows, macOS, and Linux dominate the world of operating systems. Beneath that mainstream layer, though, lives a shadowy ecosystem of niche projects that often carry strange ...