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saving discussions about a bug in a long ago version of SunOS probably wasn't very interesting.

Honestly even that sounds pretty fascinating:

It could help someone gather stats on the nature, frequency, and severity of bugs over time and across companies from another angle.

It could provide a fresh perspective on modern OSes by showing how historic OSes did things.

And it might be good material for a course on the history of software engineering practices, showing classes of bugs that have been eliminated, and styles of development and customer support that worked or didn't work.




I suspect the information would be too fragmentary to extract anything statistically useful in it. But, yes, there are possibly historically interesting nuggets in those sorts of topics.

Here's the article I was thinking of by the way. https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/




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