https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_t...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successf...
Otoh it's so much fun to hack and fiddle with the unix kernel :) very zen
Are the bugs in the original, or somehow artifacts of how we got it? (Or, phrased differently: Were these bugs present at the University of Utah in 1974, or are they "new"?)
If it turns out to be a timing-related bug it may be that the bug was much less obvious on real hardware.
I once had strange effects on V6 if lib1 and/or lib2 were rebuild by me.
Should be not hard to test.
"It's very small: it contains around 55,000 lines of code, of which about 25,000 lines are in C, with under 1,000 lines of comments."
Yesterday, HN front page:
https://fzakaria.com/2025/12/28/huge-binaries
"Responses to my publication submissions often claimed such problems did not exist; however, I had observed them during my time within industry, such as at Google, but I couldn't cite it!
One problem that is only present at these mega-codebases is massive binaries. What's the largest binary (ELF file) you've ever seen? I had observed binaries beyond 25GiB, including debug symbols."
It's funny that he could not publish about the laughably large binary sizes at Google
Meanwhile employees at the company have often published papers portraying the company's problems as interesting, perhaps as a recruiting technique
dcminter•1mo ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321