Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:47:41 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml Message-ID: <1093376861.725.76.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040824193308.92BAE5D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <20040824193308.92BAE5D04@ptavv.es.net>
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--=-xWHJiem7lQ4Ukk5pVvKW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 12:33, Kevin Oberman wrote: > DOS simply is a disk based OS. (As opposed to earlier paper tape and > magnetic tape based systems. Right...I was just trying to make the point (perhaps poorly) that "DOS" doesn't necessarily refer to anything MS-DOS related. > Of course, most of the folks who read this > have probably never seen a paper tape reader and could not conceive of > an OS that actually ran on it.) Seen 'em, touched 'em, but never used 'em. I have, however, spent a little time on IBM Model 029 card punches. Leftover cards (er, well, I guess they're almost *all* leftover nowadays) make great bookmarks. :-) Bruce. --=-xWHJiem7lQ4Ukk5pVvKW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBK5td2MoxcVugUsMRAuPDAJ9UfjAA9EWtPn9Eft/FLG4rNSq7DQCgxgtm BIjjj+K8RiVMFaWI1ZJ6zkg= =atyq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xWHJiem7lQ4Ukk5pVvKW--
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