From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 04:17:28 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <56FF2BB8.8040900@update.uu.se> On 2016-04-02 04:00, Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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 -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol