Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:14:16 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015431257.1f7af2@mired.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dectapes (was Re: First test of GPL in court) Message-ID: <15487.43224.708711.796419@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020301055026.GB2196@raggedclown.net> References: <20020227135103.E64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227061336.N12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227142303.A65635@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15484.63760.663944.125557@guru.mired.org> <20020227163501.A66574@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15485.4354.561280.729573@guru.mired.org> <20020228020025.B65094@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> <15485.40778.433515.165006@guru.mired.org> <20020301035636.C20774@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> <15487.405.365982.645106@guru.mired.org> <20020301055026.GB2196@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> types: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:20:37PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> types: > I also remember booting PDP 11/44's in which you had to type into the > console some magic octal numbers to get it to read the boot block. There > was a single digit difference between the incantation to "read" the > block and to "write" it :). > > Kids today, they're spoilt. Keyboard? We used an 11/70, and you had to toggle the hex digits into the front panel, as binary. > I do remember the early versions of fsck, one day we let it rip and > auto-repair one of the file-systems, it took a long time. We had a > beautifully clean system at the end of it though, it had systematically > removed every single file on the system. I like the behavior of so many tools in the beta releases of BSD after they added symlinks to the file system. Many of the tools didn't know how to handle them, so if you created a directory loop with a symlink, it would dump it as such. Unless there were a lot of big files between the two ends, tar usually ran out of pathname space before you ran out of tape. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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