From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 16:56:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51B5106564A; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:56:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B0A8FC14; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:56:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8519DE81091; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:55:26 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Message-ID: <20101020165526.GA25310@thought.org> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> <20101017143901.GA71132@current.Sisis.de> <20101019074615.GA2183@current.Sisis.de> <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> <20101020052601.GA1977@current.Sisis.de> <4cbe9e9a.3qT7q8JUqJxSD8/V%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4cbe9e9a.3qT7q8JUqJxSD8/V%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: bdsfbsd@att.net, guru@unixarea.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:56:01 -0000 On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: > > > PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX > > > 780 days :-) > > I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 around 1982, I think. > > Gotcha beat :) UNIX V6, PDP-11/34, RK05 disk cartridge, 1975. > The whole runtime fit on one RK05. The sources took a second one. I remember the 11/34 fondly. The whole EE department at Cory Hall was running one one; then when I interned at Livermore my job of porting the "Portable F77 Compiler" was done with vi and the source code that Stu Feldman wrote. I love[d] those bloody old computers, :-) Dunno why. Maybe because they really *were* about computing. Not streaming [[whatever]] or having php running. (Blah^9^9^9) :) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org