Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2586 comp.os.linux.misc:17276 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!eve.adam.com.au!eve.adam.com.au!not-for-mail From: steve@adam.com.au (Stephen White) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: One downsmanship (Was:Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)) Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 18 Jun 1994 15:48:44 -0000 Organization: ADAM Pty Ltd. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2tv50s$fc0@eve.adam.com.au> References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <2smc4m$daj@Mercury.mcs.com> <WAYNE.94Jun3224657@backbone.uucp> <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <hart.770900967@apanix.apana.org.au> <Cr2JxG.9v5@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <hart.771247061@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.adam.com.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Leigh Hart (hart@apanix.apana.org.au) wrote: : Who first used CPM on a Fergusson Big Board (home-built-with-friend) : complete with an Eprom Burner on the motherboard :-) Who first used a homebuilt 8080 S-Bus system which had a bare wire per key, and you typed on it by touching a long ground wire to each "key". To start it up, you toggled some switches in the right order to get it to load in a small ROM monitor, and then "key"ed in a cassette tape loader in hexadecimal then loaded in the OS from tape. -- steve@adam.com.au