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* [COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days
@ 2020-11-10 23:11 grog
  2020-11-10 23:38 ` imp
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From: grog @ 2020-11-10 23:11 UTC (permalink / raw)


I'm currently reviewing a paper about Unix and Linux, and I made the
comment that in the olden days the normal way to build an OS image for
a big computer was from source.  Now I've been asked for a reference,
and I can't find one!  Can anybody help?

Greg
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2020-11-10 23:11 [COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days grog
2020-11-10 23:38 ` imp
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2020-11-11  0:06   ` grog
2020-11-11  0:10     ` athornton
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2020-11-11  3:09         ` grog
2020-11-11  4:54           ` dave
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