Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
They recently found a 50-year-old tape with the Unix v4 source code! Using some ancient hardware, they managed to recover it, and now it's finally online. In this video, I take a few classic Unix v4 tools like cat and wc and port them to Windows!
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Run Unix v4 in a PDP-11 emulator - https://riedstra.dev/static/unixv4/
Unix v4 source code: github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/Research-V4-Snapshot-Development
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They recently found a 50-year-old tape with the Unix v4 source code! Using some ancient hardware, they managed to recover it, and now it's finally online. In this video, I take a few classic Unix v4 tools like cat and wc and port them to Windows!
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Run Unix v4 in a PDP-11 emulator - https://riedstra.dev/static/unixv4/
Unix v4 source code: github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/Research-V4-Snapshot-Development
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