From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 14 9:38:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B2B37B657 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:38:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA21197; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:36:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAjUaqoP; Tue Nov 14 10:36:27 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22782; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:38:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011141738.KAA22782@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:38:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: stork@qnet.com (Heredity Choice), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), cfuhrman@tfcci.com (Chris Fuhrman), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200011141602.JAA19964@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 14, 2000 04:02:14 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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