Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:10:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>, tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <20010809161007.V73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010808235448.045a9450@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:55:31PM -0600 References: <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost> <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> <37466058997.20010808070756@nc.rr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010808143704.053c8c10@localhost> <20010809124854.H73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010808235448.045a9450@localhost>
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On Wednesday, 8 August 2001 at 23:55:31 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:18 PM 8/8/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> By default, it reloaded the entire "OS". > > But not the BIOS, which obviuously had to be there to do the > work. Remember that CP/M's BIOS was not in ROM but rather > was part of the OS. Ah, right, it's coming back to me. That was the second half of the second track IIRC. A warm boot would simply read in all but the last 6 or 10 sectors. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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