On 28/04/2024 01:14, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office
No, but fore a very long time the phone network was run by
a government-granted monopoly, Ma Bell. Hadn't the divestiture
happened, AT&T had their own dinosaur ideas and would have
do
After learning more about the PALM processor in the IBM 5100, it has a
similarity to the 6502 in that the first 128 bytes of RAM is a "register
file." All its registers (R0 to R15, across 4 interrupt "layers") occupy
those first addresses. In addition, they are physically on the processor
itself
Interesting discussion, but don't forget software was free until on June 23,
1969, when IBM announced its unbundled offerings! The computer manufacturers
then separately priced their software but at it is what sold the hardware for
some time thereafter.
It was, for quite some time, always safe
