On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:45:39PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> 
> Dump/restore has been around since the dawn of time.
> 

Where dawn of time is V6 (research) Unix.
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/DumpHistory

and V6 Unix was the first version available outside of Bell Labs
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part6/section-2.html

Or about 1975.

Which really is the dawn of time (epoch being o' dark thirty, pre-dawn) in this 
context.

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