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Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history. Aleks Maricq, research associate in the Flux Research Group, discovered a version of the ...

The Rust reimplementation of classic Unix tools is making progress: version 0.5.0 now passes 87.75 percent of the GNU test suite.

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