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Comment by Lord_Nightmare | Hacker News Reader

If anyone wants to play with the demo from 23 years ago, the code can still be found at ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/languages/pdb/

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Sadly it doesn't look like it's been preserved:

    pdb2.1-demo/
    pdb2.1-demo/COPYING
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/pdb-cpp
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/pdb-comp
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/pdb-opt
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/pdb
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/sun4/
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/sun4/pdb
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/sun4/pdb-comp
    tar: Truncated input file (needed 253952 bytes, only 245760 available)
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

hunting for another copy...

Found an intact copy: ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/postscript/pdb2.1-demo.tar.gz which someone recompressed from compress to gzip at some point. The original compress archive seems to be lost except in truncated form :(

Cool thanks.

Now I need to find some ancient boxes...

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