Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:
Hmmm this site attempts to assign authorship to pre-version-control Unix sources, and credits tar to Charles B Haley:
https://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/jrnl/2016-EMPSE-unix-history/html/unix-history.html
However, this credit is described as coming from "primary research" and the sources are not cited. So far I haven't been able to locate a primary source. (Haley _is_ explicitly credited in several other areas of the V7 sources.)