From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 1 8:14:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D07D37B41A for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:14:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6551 invoked by uid 100); 1 Mar 2002 16:14:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15487.43224.708711.796419@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:14:16 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dectapes (was Re: First test of GPL in court) 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) 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 Cliff Sarginson types: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:20:37PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Adrian Wontroba 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. 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