From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix?
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 09:41:33 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160401224132.GA18464@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604020101250.76221@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Saturday, 2 April 2016 at 1:06:58 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, scj at yaccman.com wrote:
>
>> ... and I once heard an old-timer growl at a young programmer "I've
>> written boot loaders that were shorter than your variable names!"
>
> Ah, the 512-byte boot blocks... We got pretty inventive in those days
> (and this was before secondary loaders!) with line editing etc.
I was thinking more of the RIM loader on the PDP-8. 16 words or 24
bytes.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-01 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-25 14:43 Aharon Robbins
2016-03-25 19:47 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2016-03-25 21:03 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-28 20:12 ` scj
2016-04-01 14:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-04-01 22:41 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2016-03-25 21:29 ` [TUHS] Command-line options Warren Toomey
2016-03-25 23:25 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26 2:10 ` John Cowan
2016-03-26 3:09 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-26 19:43 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-26 20:54 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-26 22:05 ` John Cowan
2016-03-27 1:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-27 1:50 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-27 2:01 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 6:18 ` Random832
2016-03-27 6:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 19:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-27 1:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26 3:54 ` [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix? Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26 4:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-26 5:44 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26 8:33 ` Steve Nickolas
[not found] <mailman.1.1459562401.20104.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-04-02 2:17 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-04-02 2:35 ` Charles Anthony
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