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Video of the disk image running on a real PDP-11/45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh-9rBYmGow

aap has it booting
it appears to be something between the documentation for V4 and V5
https://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/

--- quote from Matt Day email:

Correction: the commands present in Angelo's copy of the v4 tape include:
dd, diff, glob, lpr, msh, pwd, tee

Not present in Angelo's copy of the v4 tape: col, eqn, neqn, spell

Present in Fifth Edition: all of the above, according to
https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-history-man/man1.html

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM Matt Day <fjarlq@gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool, thanks Angelo.. I got it running easily thanks to your efforts.
>
> At a glance it looks like Fifth Edition to me... all the files are
> timestamped June 10 - 12, 1974. Commands present include col, dd, diff,
> eqn, glob, lpr, msh, neqn, pwd, spell, and tee -- according to
> https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-history-man/man1.html those commands
> first appeared in Fifth Edition and were not present in Fourth.

The Unix V4 tape read was successful
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115747843169814700

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"Updated" systems are bloated, user-hostile pieces of shit. Fuck you, very much.