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- Henry writes:
-
- I don't have an actual virgin copy of the distribution tape, but pretty
- close... When we got it, there was some delay before we could undertake
- conversion -- this wasn't as painless as the V5->V6 upgrade, since the
- filesystem layout and the C API both changed -- but we adopted a few
- bits and pieces, like tar, immediately. It very quickly became desirable
- to have a tar tape of the complete V7, so we made one from the distribution
- tape. (I think this may have been just a matter of stripping out some
- preliminary goo that made the distribution tape self-booting, but I don't
- remember the details.) In practice, that's what everyone on campus used
- thereafter, and the original distribution tape was forgotten. So it's
- not in the original format, but it does have the original contents.
-
- Oh, incidentally, there was a small addendum tape that some V7 sites got,
- with a few odds and ends of improvements and stuff that got left off the
- original tape by accident.
-
- v7.tar.gz is the distribution tar file. v7.patches.tar.gz is the patches file.
-