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Linux community for Lemmy.zip. ~~also this needs mods pretty bad~~ apparently not as bad as I thought (either that or this community isnt alive enough for troublemakers yet)

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52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.zip
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A heart-warming story for cold, stony sysadmin hearts.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

It's a Christmas miracle.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In 1973 I had a pretty good handle on learning to walk and the entire internet looked like this.

Cool map BTW. You can figure out where most of the computers lived and how they were connected if you look closely. Never figured out what Aberdeen is doing in America?