Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)
Gary Kline <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Matthias Apitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: > > > PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX > > > 780 days :-) > > I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 around 1982, I think. > > Gotcha beat :) UNIX V6, PDP-11/34, RK05 disk cartridge, 1975. > The whole runtime fit on one RK05. The sources took a second one. I remember the 11/34 fondly. The whole EE department at Cory Hall was running one one; then when I interned at Livermore my job of porting the "Portable F77 Compiler" was done with vi and the source code that Stu Feldman wrote. I love[d] those bloody old computers, :-) Dunno why. Maybe because they really *were* about computing. Not streaming [[whatever]] or having php running. (Blah^9^9^9) :) -- Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"