Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:38:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: stork@qnet.com (Heredity Choice), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), cfuhrman@tfcci.com (Chris Fuhrman), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <200011141738.KAA22782@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200011141602.JAA19964@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 14, 2000 04:02:14 PM
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> The Tandy 6000. It had the cutest hack, too: it ran 2 68000 > processors, and when one took a protection fault, it would use > the state from the other processor, one clock behind, in order > to recover the otherwise destroyed instruction counter. Ah, I > remember the thing well... truly a mrvel of silver and black > plastic; our had a 14" HD, with a monster 10MB of space... I > think this was one of the last machines where we distributed our > software on 8" Shugart floppies... Sorry, I misremembered this. The Tandy 6000 Xenix ran in medium model, and wasn't demand paged. The system I was thinking of was the Charles Rivers Data System machine at the Weber State University Computer Science Dept., where Wes Peters and I were first exposed to UNIX, back in 1982. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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