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An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape (spinellis.gr)
98 points by DSpinellis 173 days ago
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> (The results also show that I need to examine the apparent timing mismatch between the First and Second Editions.)

Something something, naming things, cache invalidation, timestamp mismatches and off-by-1 errors :)

It could just be as simple as being a later "final" copy of V1, made when it was "done".
Ongoing posts about the tape discovery and work: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115748594116050292