Beta of Unix version 2 restored to life

Posted by bob on Feb 24, 2025 5:24 PM EDT
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What is dead may never die. After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again. The recovered code runs on a PDP-11 simulator and contains a version of Unix that's later than V1 from 1972, but doesn't contain V2 API calls; a sort of Unix V2 beta.

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