Re: Ancient Archives of ftp.sourceware.org?

[Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 09:01 -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:30 PM Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 10:44 -0500, Joel Sherrill via Overseers wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > May 4th was the 25th birthday of the oldest commit in the RTEMS repository.
> > > Before that, there was a private repo for the research project that
> > > produced it. We started the public repository from the last snapshot.
> > > 
> > > In those dark years of the early Internet, ftp.sourceware.org? had RTEMS on
> > > it. Cygnus even included a version on a floppy they sent out. I scanned the
> > > letter, envelope, and put the floppy contents online (
> > > https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/people/joel/CygnusFloppyAugust1995/). I had
> > > to buy a USB floppy drive to read the floppy.  Enjoy that flashback. :)
> > > 
> > > As we approach the 30th anniversary of the first public paper on RTEMS, I'd
> > > love to find some really old versions. The version on that floppy is the
> > > oldest one we have.
> > > 
> > > Is there any chance, there are easily accessible old, old, dusty versions
> > > of ftp.sourceware.org? from before 1995?
> > I don't think sourceware was born until 1997/1998 ;-)
> > 
> > Over time we've tried to populate it with old releases as they're found.
> 
> Wow! How was newlib distributed back in the dark pre-sourceware age?
> I know we used it before 97/98 and got it via ftp. 
I don't remember.   I would expect official releases from the newlib project
would have been via ftp *somewhere*, but I don't know where.  It was a long time
ago.


There were certainly also releases to Cygnus customers that would have included
newlib.


> I went to https://sourceware.org/newlib/ and the link to the ftp site is 
> broken. I think that should be https://www.sourceware.org/ftp/newlib/ but
> the links for all the downloads are ftp also and don't work.
Ugh :(

> 
> But it was enough to see that newlib 1.6 is from 1994 which is back
> when Rob Savoye maintained it.  I kept his business card from back 
> then because I thought Hacker was a cool job title. :)
I believe policy was you can put whatever title you want on your cards.  We had
some that were, umm, "interesting".

jeff