Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Nov 1998 07:37:14 -0800 | From | (Jim Gettys) | Subject | Re: The history of the Linux OS |
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It is worth digging up the oldest Linux versions you can while it is still possible.
I have some old X stuff around (somewhere around X1 or X2), but regret having not been more systematic myself. (would be painful to get up these days; the display hardware is dramatically different and some of the early X software was written in CLU; so early days of the X Window System are unlikely to ever re-emerge from the twilight of history.)
There are a group of people on the net who are preserving old systems and software.
For example, no one will ever see UNIX before version 5, even though emulators exist for the hardware they ran on: Dennis Ritchie and others have been unable to find either a bootable disk image or sources to earlier versions. V5 and later versions can be played with today under emulators. (Would be easy to get the PDP-11 simulator running under Linux; I've suggested to Bob Supnik that it would be a good thing to do). - Jim
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