From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 8 21:45:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1DB37B401 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0F20B6ACDC; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:15:38 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:15:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Terry Lambert , Mike Meyer , j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <20010809141538.Q73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> <20010809135058.N73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:29:40AM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Thursday, 9 August 2001 at 6:29:40 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Greg Lehey 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