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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] 3Bs (was A Talk on Early Unix)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 11:10:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2CC8E22C-6A08-4816-B8C4-B59A125AE70C@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OHBhV3p0Rhf-oRsb6Msx9zAdN22kGjC9vuKjcaaj19jQ@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Jul 1, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> As an interesting aside, I once pointed out to Dennis that boot loader for the 3B2 was larger than V6.
> 
> Clem

I seem to recall the 3B2 was one of the first machines I dealt with that had a “soft” power switch.    I remember not having sufficient privs on one machine to turn it off.   Fortunately, I had sufficient privs to yank the plug out of the wall.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-02 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-01 16:13 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-01 18:40 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-02 15:10   ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2016-07-02 16:00     ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-02 18:49       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-07-02 19:39       ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-03 19:01       ` arnold

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