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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] vi in v7
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:06:14 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2007261003420.76447@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpcdnRvwribEr6+eSp0xWfhJCjTGDOh=PPUhz8+stCxEw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, Warner Losh wrote:

> 2.8BSD is the first one I've seen with a bootable tape (though i've not 
> booted it).

Weren't V5/6/7/etc distributed as bootable tapes?  Set the switch register 
to point to the tape instead of the disk...

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-26  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-25 14:34 Will Senn
2020-07-25 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-25 15:36   ` Warner Losh
2020-07-26  0:06     ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2020-07-26  0:13       ` Warner Losh
2020-08-01  7:54         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-01 12:15           ` Clem Cole
2020-08-01 14:33             ` Warner Losh
2020-08-01 15:41               ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26  0:41       ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26  0:16 Noel Chiappa
2020-07-26  0:39 ` Adam Thornton

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