From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist)
Subject: [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix?
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 04:17:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FF2BB8.8040900@update.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1459562401.20104.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
On 2016-04-02 04:00, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> 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.
Bah! The RK8E bootloader for OS/8: 2 words... :-)
Johnny
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2016-04-02 2:17 ` Johnny Billquist [this message]
2016-04-02 2:35 ` Charles Anthony
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
2016-03-26 3:54 ` 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
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