From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 8 13:39:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C41637B401; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16433; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:39:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010808143704.053c8c10@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:39:05 -0600 To: Neill Robins , Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick , In-Reply-To: <37466058997.20010808070756@nc.rr.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 05:07 AM 8/8/2001, Neill Robins wrote: >GL> Note that the reboot sequence for CP/M was simply ^C. "Inventing" >GL> Ctrl-Alt-Del was simply a matter of finding a new mapping for the >GL> function. > >GL> Greg > >David Bradley teaches in the Electrical and Computer Engineering >department at my university now and makes it a point that >everybody knows the above statement. ( http://www.ece.ncsu.edu ) Of course, CP/M was so incredibly simple that the "reboot" (such as it was) took only a fraction of a second. Also, IIRC, only PART of CP/M was reloaded by that "warm" boot. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message