A researcher successfully resurrected a 1972 UNIX V2 'Beta' version from DMR tapes, featuring both V1 and V2 compatibility and increased core size to 16 KiB. The system demonstrates functionality with basic commands and C compilation, though it requires specific emulation conditions to operate.

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