From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 29 6:29:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB50637B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 06:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f4TDTDs03276; Tue, 29 May 2001 15:29:14 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:25:30 +0200 To: "Joseph A. Mallett" , Bzdik BSD From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Acknowledgement by Jobs Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:01 AM -0400 5/29/01, Joseph A. Mallett wrote: > I thought AOL started as text-mode in DOS? Actually, AOL got their start in 1982 as Quantum Computer Services, and made a 300 baud modem module for the original Atari game consoles. That was how they got their start. In fact, many companies paid AOL money to port their software to support a virtual on-line service exclusively for their hardware -- the original AppleLink (for Apple ][ and //e computers) was done this way, as well as the later eWorld. There is one and only one platform that AOL has ever written their software for and which the OS vendor did *NOT* pay them for this privilege, namely Microsoft. And that was a big "bet the company" type of decision. Nevertheless, they really took off, and this was the launching pad for the company we now know. Indeed, when I first started working at AOL, my office was just down the hall from one of the original "core four" that founded the company, and he had a literal museum of old bits-n-bobs of things that had been produced over the years. He helped instill a real sense of historical perspective on many of the employees I knew. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message