SCO site has Unix for download

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From: "Efton Collins" < ecollins@outstart.com>
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Hey,

You may have seen it already, but I haven't seen an announcement on the
PUPS list -

SCO has got Unix 5th, 6th and 7th Editions, Mini Unix, System III and 32V
available on their site for download. You can access them by going to
www.sco.com/offers/ancient.html and accepting the license.

Congratulations PUPS, this is a milestone.

Efton

Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:34:32 -0400 (EDT)
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I just signed up for my free(!) SCO Ancient Unix license.  It's great fun
to be able to explore again the code I first saw and worked on as a
student all too many years ago.  It seems only right to thank those who
gave me access to this resource.

Thank you,  Warren,  for your work in convincing SCO to make this
possible.  Also thanks for the archives,  the mailing list,  the idea,
and everything else.

Thank you,  SCO,  for seeing the historic value of the code and generously
making it available to enthusiasts.  SCO's attitude towards this legacy is
extremely rare amoung corporations,  and they deserve our gratitude.

Thanks also to everyone who contributed material to the PUPS archive.
In the face of such generousity I'm sorry I don't have (or think I don't
have) any material left from the PDP-11 era to add to the collection.

And now,  back to wallowing in PDP-11 nostalgia.  :-)

Frank Wortner

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In article by Frank Wortner:
> I just signed up for my free(!) SCO Ancient Unix license.  It's great fun
> to be able to explore again the code I first saw and worked on as a
> student all too many years ago.  It seems only right to thank those who
> gave me access to this resource.
> Frank Wortner

I'd like to add some thanks to Frank's list.

Thanks to those people who forked out their US$100 for the paper SCO license.
It's a shame you can't get a refund. At least you have a real, signed,
license that you can wave at your friends :-)

Our first contact at SCO, Dion Johnson, fought with bureacracy and the legal
naysayers to get us the first SCO license. Thanks, Dion!

We have a lot of PUPS Volunteers behind the scenes who have been burning CDs
and other media in the past 2-3 years. With the free license, they're going
to get much busier, but are still volunteers. Everybody who has received a
CD should congratulate these people. Soren Jorvang in particular deserves
thanks.

Hint: if you have a CD burner, YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY REQUIRED. Email me!

Finally, the bulk of the files in the archive were donated by a few people:
Dennis Ritchie, Henry Spencer, Keith Bostic, Tim Shoppa, Steven Schultz
and Kirk McKusick are the most notable. Thanks to all those who have
donated old files and information to the archive!

Some quick stats: 100+ people have obtained for PUPS Archive access in the
last 24 hours. Web activity was 1.2G, compared to a usual 36M, in the last
24 hours. Haven't checked ftp yet. Not bad for a 486! I'm switching over to
the Celeron today, so expect a few hours of downtime and a few glitches.

Cheers,
	Warren