Done & done! Thanks again for your help in preserving Quasijarus!

Feel free to link my mirror and sq archive in the main post here if you wish. There are all sorts of greatness in the full IFCTF mirror.

My mirror contains the complete contents of the FTP site at the time of the snapshot.

sadly I was under the impression that it had all been saved. I absolutely have some old BSD stuff and I’ll check if there is any 2.11BSD around. If I do find anything I will post on TUHS.

Arg, we looked into 2.11BSD at the end of 2015 over at TUHS/PUPS.

Warren was able to recover some bits that rotted from the archive from backups. I don’t have much hope in reconstructing a pristine unpatched 2.11BSD release anymore though. This went wrong at the start as the base 2.11BSD master tapes already suffered from corruption, but you never know. I crossed the below to the sages at cctech to no avail back then.

Over at TUHS an attempt to put the history of 2.11BSD under version
control (git) stranded somewhat.

After some digging the patchlevels that can be found in the archives
are now 195, 277, 303 and 431. The base 2.11BSD is sorely missing.

The numbered updates by Steven M. Schultz are not pure context diffs.
eg. an attempt to reverse them breaks where ld.c is removed in update
#160 and can’t be pieced back together accurately using 2.10xBSD and
assorted patches.

Maybe someone here who missed the thread on the TUHS mailing list has
a really old copy of 2.11BSD lying around?

Awesome!

Wow, I didn’t even think to check the 2BSD stuff. I guess it’s happening everywhere that old stuff just slides on out.

Related – I believe a similar fate recently befell the 2BSD main site.

I believe nothing was nothing was lost since we have the PICBSD/RetroBSD and TUHS/PUPS communities.

Interestingly enough, it never forgets, only as long as there is interest or motivation.

IPFS is a very interesting distributed solution to this problem but not a bulletproof one – essentially, imagine a web where no URL would ever disappear as long as somebody somewhere requested it within the last month or so.

It’s something I use in my own projects using local swarms and eventually would like to explore solutions with the preservation and emulation communities.

Cheers,

-F

ok got it! thanks!