From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: charles.unix.pro@gmail.com (Charles Anthony) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 19:35:35 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix? In-Reply-To: <56FF2BB8.8040900@update.uu.se> References: <56FF2BB8.8040900@update.uu.se> Message-ID: On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > 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... :-) > > DPS8-M: 11 36-bit words. Sad. But on the other hand, no actual CPU instructions. All addresses and Channel Control Words and Data. -- Charles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: