I downloaded the tarball and had a look through it. Almost everything has source code included, which is pretty cool to see.
There’s an entire C compiler from 1972, bootstrapped to be written in C. There was also a SNOBOL III compiler written in C, and a Fortran interpreter in C (only 462 lines!), and every unix command like ls,cd,echo,cat,grep,etc…
Unsurprisingly grep was written in assembly, but it’s source is there.
There’s also a games folder, but unfortunately these look like they’re just binaries:
bj, chess, cubic, moo, ttt, wump
I’ll have to load up a pdp11 emulator later to see what they are.Thank you for sharing the insights. I heard bj is a good game.
Your mom loves it
Nancy Reagan still has the high score
The word is that Julia Roberts took the title in the 90s
Monica Lewinsky is right on her heels.
Hunt the Wumpus! A true classic.
(I’m serious. Try it. It’s fun. I think it’s in the bsdgames package.)
Don’t accidentally get the bdsmgames package instead, that’s for a different kind of game.
That one’s sadly missing from most distros’ repositories.
Wow. SNOBOL was one of the coolest, Stange languages.
my grandmother was a programmer at bell in the early 60s and 70s. really curious if she had hands on any of this. wish she was still around to ask lol.
you only realize how cool your grandparents were after they’re gone.
This is Unix v4 I think. The programs mentioned were also on later versions and I thought not hard to find. V6 sources are all online somewhere. I also expect some of those v4 programs would have been in assembler rather than C.
Tape image: https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw
Extracted filesystem: http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/README
TIL that slashdot is still around. XD
Its been though several hands and the latest ones love floating bug the fuck out of you ads. I used to have a button on for decades to disable ads due to me being a regular contributor. The latest owners took that away.
