Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

asmith@14inverleith.freeserve.co.uk
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:19:14 +0100 (BST)


Hi again,

some old brain-cells got excited with the "good-ol-days" and other names have
surfaced like "Superbrain","Sirius" and "Apricot".Sirius was Victor in the
USA. If you go done the so-called IBM compatible route then the nearly
compatible nightmares will arise and haunt you, your lucky if the scars
have faded!!

I learnt my computing on a PDP8/E with papertape punch/reader, RALF, Fortran
II, then later 2.4Mb removable cartridges (RK05 I think). toggling in the
bootstrap improved your concentration. Much later you could
get a single chip(?) version of this in a wee knee sized box.

One summer job was working on a PDP15 analog computer alongside an 11/20 with
DECTAPE, trying to compute missile firing angles. [A simple version of Pres
Bush's starwars shield].

--

Andrew Smith in Edinburgh,Scotland

On 25 Jun 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> landley@webofficenow.com (Rob Landley) wrote on 24.06.01 in <0106241044060C.01519@localhost.localdomain>: > > > Now if somebody here could just point me to a decent reference on A/UX - > > Apple's mid-80's version of Unix (for the early macintosh, I believe...) > > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2ba/ux%22 > > Usually a good idea. > > > > Also, you probably want to look at RFC 2235. > > MfG Kai > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >

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