If anyone wants to play with the demo from 23 years ago, the code can still be f...

geocar · on Oct 9, 2016

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.

Lord_Nightmare · on Oct 9, 2016

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 :(

geocar · on Oct 10, 2016

Cool thanks.

Now I need to find some ancient boxes...