[OT] Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-27 Thread Guest section DW
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Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-27 Thread Jesse Pollard
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 25 June 2001 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > > 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. M

Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Michael Meissner
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:44:53AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > Okay, so they're 2.4 megabyte removable cartridges? How big? Are they tapes > or disk packs? (I.E. can you run off of them or are they just storage?) I > know lots of early copies of unix were sent out from Bell Labs on RK05 > c

Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Cox
There seems to be a bug in the mail routing again. It may be related to the recent problem with ditto copier history outbreaks on Linux S/390 and the infamous 'pdp-11 memory subsystem' article routing bug that plagued comp.os.minix once. In the meantime can people check that their mailer hasnt s

Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 10:44 AM -0400 2001-06-26, Rob Landley wrote: >"A quarter century of unix" mentions RK05 cartridges several times, but never >says much ABOUT them. > >Okay, so they're 2.4 megabyte removable cartridges? How big? Are they tapes >or disk packs? (I.E. can you run off of them or are they just st

Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 25 June 2001 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 n