Comment by avar

Comment by avar 4 hours ago

    > This is rare enough that I'm pushing the recovery
    > of it up near the top of my project queue.

The reader is left to wonder what the software librarian at the Computer History Museum could have possibly found recently that warrants a placement ahead of Unix v4 in their project queue. A copy of Atlantian Unix from the ancient Library of Alexandria?

gregw2 3 hours ago

Perhaps a prior promise to someone else?

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mbreese an hour ago

Or you know... just the definition of a FIFO Queue. I mean, using a FILO Stack to organize your work would certainly be a choice...

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- rtkwe an hour ago
  
  Definitionally if they're "pushing it near the top" they're not only using FIFO, there's a priority ordering involved...
  My guess is there's stuff in progress and maybe they need to arrange access to or setup the readers for a tape that old and of potentially unknown format.
  
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  nish__ an hour ago
  
  Yes it's probably better to finish in progress stuff first.
  
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