2 Jun
2014
2 Jun
'14
9:34 a.m.
From: norman(a)oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
SP&E published a paper by Don Knuth discussing all
the many bugs found
in TeX, including some statistical analysis.
From: John Cowan <cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org>
"The Errors of TeX" was an excellent
article.
Thanks for the pointer; it sounds like a great paper, but alas the only
copies I could fine online were behind paywalls.
From: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
btw. there is a v6 version of fsck floating around.
Yes, we had it at MIT.
I'm wonder if I can find a readable copy.
As I've mentioned, I have this goal of putting the MIT Unix (the kernel was
basically PWB1, with a host of new applications) sources online.
I have recently discovered (in my basement!) two sets of full dump tapes
(1/2" magtape) of what I think are the whole filesystem, so if I can find a
way to get them read, we'll have the V6 fsck - and much more besides (such
as a TCP/IP for V6). So I think you may soon get your wish!
Noel
2 Jun
2 Jun
10:05 a.m.
New subject: Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
I would also love to find a way to read 9 track tapes back in. Everyone
has ditched the hardware. I have several 4BSD and System V tapes as
well as personal tapes I'd love to read in. (Anyone remember IBM
"picture tapes"?)
On 06/01/2014 08:34 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
From:
norman(a)oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
SP&E published a paper by Don Knuth
discussing all the many bugs found
in TeX, including some statistical analysis.
From: John Cowan <cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org>
"The Errors of TeX" was an excellent
article.
Thanks for the pointer; it sounds like a great paper, but alas the only
copies I could fine online were behind paywalls.
From: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
btw. there is a v6 version of fsck floating
around.
Yes, we had it at MIT.
I'm wonder if I can find a readable copy.
As I've mentioned, I have this goal of putting the MIT Unix (the kernel was
basically PWB1, with a host of new applications) sources online.
I have recently discovered (in my basement!) two sets of full dump tapes
(1/2" magtape) of what I think are the whole filesystem, so if I can find a
way to get them read, we'll have the V6 fsck - and much more besides (such
as a TCP/IP for V6). So I think you may soon get your wish!
Noel
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12:12 p.m.
New subject: Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
"The
Errors of TeX" was an excellent article.
Thanks for the pointer; it sounds like a great paper, but alas the only
copies I could fine online were behind paywalls. 
3 Jun
3 Jun
6:11 p.m.
New subject: Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
On 2014-06-02 05:34, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I have recently discovered (in my basement!) two sets
of full dump tapes
(1/2" magtape) of what I think are the whole filesystem, so if I can find a
way to get them read, we'll have the V6 fsck - and much more besides (such
as a TCP/IP for V6). So I think you may soon get your wish!
IIRC, we had a list of people somewhere on TUHS/PUPS, which still can
read & write tapes. We had this service for people, who couldn't pull
the whole archive through the net, so we send out tapes ...
Cheers
P.S. Sorry, can't find a link for it at the moment
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