@maltimore @fsf @fsfe
Some reasons for this include: The process wasn't documented, the code was lost, used many different hardwares, it took about 50 years, untangling history is _hard_.
For that last remark, just look at the Java or Rust bootstraps (they needed _many_, _many_ steps) or the sheer impossibility to bootstrap the NPM/Node distaster.
@janneke @maltimore @fsf @fsfe Also historical bootstrap might have used proprietary programs, so even historical bootstrap documentation might not help.