From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Feb 15 22:14:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08349 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:14:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bonjour.cc.columbia.edu (bonjour.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08344 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-1-85.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.42.94]) by bonjour.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA16736; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:11:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36C90BC5.9A727F4F@confusion.net> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:10:13 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@isis.dynip.com CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Strange Question References: <199902142103.AAA08919@isis.dynip.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I assume it was written in binary directly, which must have been a real pain in the ass, esp since it can't be ported from what processor to another at all. I'm not really sure how one enters such a program into a system but I guess the bios loads it on bootup if its in the bootsector since that's what the bios is for? root@isis.dynip.com wrote: > Ok, we all know that famous debate about who came first, the chicken or > the egg, on a similar scale, now you compile any c program with a > compiler, right , like cc, so as to say, cc compiler itself is a > program, so how it was first compiled, something like MS debug under > dos, or what. I mean the FIRST ever compiler generated, how it was > compiled into an exceutable ? > > More strange questions to come ....... > > -- > - MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. ~o .^. > ---------------------------- ___ o~ .00 ) > Static Email : osiris2002@yahoo.com /| o~ /)( > Bouncing Email : root@isis.dynip.com / | | \ > Web Site : http://isis.dynip.com:80 (Frames) ___/ | / \ > Anon FTP Site : ftp://isis.dynip.com:21 (anonymous) | /''___/ / | > Gopher Site : gopher://isis.dynip.com:70 | /'''/___/ | > Network News : isis.dynip.com (Read, Post, Xfer) __|/'''/ > Mailing Lists : majordomo@isis.dynip.com (public) > pgp key : finger root@isis.dynip.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message