Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:15:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <20010809141538.Q73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzplmkt500b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:29:40AM %2B0200 References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <20010808160551.Q78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B7103A4.558B9B3B@mindspring.com> <20010809124559.G73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> <xzpr8ul50n4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010809135058.N73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> <xzplmkt500b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Thursday, 9 August 2001 at 6:29:40 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> On Thursday, 9 August 2001 at 6:15:59 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >>> I have a CP/M manual from DR lying around somewhere that contains a >>> full (as far as I can tell, anyway) commented assembly listing. >> Of what? The BIOS? I have most of the manuals. Which one is it? > > The OS itself, I think. I'd be very surprised. I have a disassembler (and well documented) version, but if there had been any way to get the original source at the time, we'd have found out about it, especially if it were published by DR. > ISTR it's a rather thin gray-greenish letter-sized thing with about > 150 pages (looks a bit like the original Amiga manuals). The size sounds right for a DR manual, anyway. > I don't have it here, it's in a box somewhere (or possibly still on > a shelf in my old bedroom at my mother's place). Can you try to find it? I'm sure it would be interesting. 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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