Someone extracts the oldest surviving copy of UNIX from the tapes Warren Toomey had been given by Dennis Ritchie in 1997, after Ritchie had already stored them for 25 years (!), and gets a 53 year old operating system running on a PDP-11/20 emulator.
Mindblowing […]
Yesterday, I found (and fixed) an at least 37 years old bug in #IRAF CL. It appeared already in the first IRAF version where we have source code (2.8). If you have an older version, please let me know! #SoftwareArcheology
Jackpot! "Book of the Runtime" github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/mast... #softwarearcheology
