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 This is a tar archive derived from a DECtape labelled "nsys". What is contains is just the kernel source, written in the pre-K&R dialect of C. It is intended only for PDP-11/45, and has setup and memory-handling code that will not work on other models (it's missing things special to the later, smaller models, and the larger physical address space of the still later 11/70.) It appears that it is intended to be loaded into memory at physical address 0, and transferred to at location 0.
+The Fourth Edition marks the first edition of research UNIX for which the accompanying manual is produced in NROFF rather than ROFF.  Many deprecated/retired pages can be found in the manx folder that still bear ROFF formatting.
+Changes include:
+  * Epoch is redefined as seconds from 1/1/1970 instead of ms from 1/1/1972
+  * Addition of the signal(II) syscall, deprecating cemt, fpe, ilgins, intr, and quit syscalls for specific signals
+  * Alteration of makdir(II) into the mknod(II) syscall
+  * Removal of the mdate(II) and rele(II) syscalls
+  * The stty(II) interface has been altered to be less DC-11 specific
+  * open(II) now supports mode "2" (read/write)
+  * nice(II) allows setting a priority (rather than dropping to a fixed one)
+  * mount(II) expands mountable filesystem count past 4
+  * kill(II) can now be used to send arbitrary signals, not just kill itself
+  * stat(II) now reports if a file is a block or character special file
+  * exec(II) drops support for V1 a.out files
+  * Deprecation of applications targeting the assembly version of UNIX such as tmg(VI) and m6(VI)
+  * Deprecation of the salloc(III) library
+  * Removal of any remaining formal B support
+  * Removed DECish basic(VI) in favor of bas(I)
+  * New dump(VIII)/restor(VIII) filesystem utilities to replace old chk/salv-based approach
+  * chdir(I) now makes mention of needing 'x' permission on directories
+  * Group support added to file modifiers
+  * cref(I) gains better C support
+  * date(I) adds support for setting the year
+  * Core files now include the per-process data at the front, not the back
+  * Adds support for shared text segments
+  * login(I) now always prompts for a password as opposed to receiving it as an argument
+  * Manpages have been moved from /sys/man to /usr/man
+  * Sources have been moved from /sys/sys to /usr/sys
+  * Supports using | or ^ as pipe instead of >
+  * The tty driver supports 12 terminals instead of 10
+  * the tty driver now discards the entire buffer on overflow instead of printing '#' per overflow character
+  * The tty driver maps uppercase to lowercase if only uppercase is used
+  * The console driver now has greater parity with other tty drivers
+  * Block devices now present a raw interface and buffered access
+  * Filesystem filenames (as opposed to ar(I) filenames) are extended to 14 characters
+  * Filesystem objects (as opposed to ar(I) objects) now support group bits
+  * In both above cases, ar(I) is *not* updated to support these
+  * Indirect blocks are added to support larger filesystems (e.g. RP disks)
+  * 2741 terminal support appears to be on the way out
+  * The init system now utilizes /etc/rc for operations such as mounting disks (rather than filesystems being hard-coded into init)
+  * A new boot procedure is provided for the C UNIX system
+  * Section I adds catsim, comm, file, grep, merge, nice, nohup, pfe, plot, shift, sleep, tr, troff, wait
+  * Section II adds intro, getgid, indir, setgid
+  * Section III adds getarg, getchr, getpw, hmul, ierror, ldiv, nargs, perror, printf, putchr, reset, setfil, vt
+  * Section IV adds cat, da, tiu, vs
+  * Section VI adds azel, chess, cubic, maze, sfs, sky, spline, wump
+  * Section VII adds tmheader
+  * Section VIII adds ino, mkfs, mknod, sync, update
 For more information about Fourth Edition Unix, see [[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html|The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System]] by Dennis Ritchie.