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The second page of code has been traced even farther back:

http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/oldunix/local/unix/v3wkt/ken/malloc.c

In the README file:

http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/oldunix/local/unix/v3wkt/Readme.html

In January 1999, Dennis Ritchie sent in a copy of the `nsys' UNIX kernel for inclusion in the PUPS Archive. In the accompanying README, he says:

So far as I can determine, this is the earliest version of Unix that currently exists in machine-readable form. ... The dates on the transcription are hard to interpret correctly; if my program that interprets the image are correct, the files were last touched on 22 Jan, 1973. ...

70 posted on 08/19/2003 10:28:18 AM PDT by justlurking
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To: justlurking
One of the two excerpts is in Kernighan aand Ritchie's C book. Hayzoos Marimba...

I wonder if SCO had any clue that their little love-in for their true believers would go that ugly on 'em? I think it's past time for them to hire someone who can read code, and someone who can drive Google... skills they seem to be lacking.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

84 posted on 08/19/2003 11:02:58 AM PDT by Criminal Number 18F
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