From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jon@fourwinds.com (Jon Steinhart) Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 19:22:58 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF? In-Reply-To: <20180515020611.5A16F156E7DB@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20180512110127.0B81418C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20180515020611.5A16F156E7DB@mail.bitblocks.com> Message-ID: <201805150222.w4F2Mwnn004038@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Bakul Shah writes: > On Tue, 15 May 2018 11:21:22 +1000 Dave Horsfall wrote: > Dave Horsfall writes: > > On Sat, 12 May 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > > > I'm pretty sure 'ed' was the only editor available at that point. > > > > I boss I used to work for insisted that we all learn "ed", because one day > > it might be the only editor available to you; well, one day he was right, > > when /usr on a client's box got creamed after a head crash... > > Your boss must've been an optimist. > > I once had to rescue a system where the root dir block was > lost. No ed. Luckily our bootrom had commands for peek/poke > & disk block IO. The v7 filesystem layout was simple enough > and I remembered enough of it that I was able to patch it > enough to bring it up and run fsck. If we're gonna get into "when I was young" stories we need to get back to repairing filesystems from the front panel switches.