Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:39:05 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010808143704.053c8c10@localhost> In-Reply-To: <37466058997.20010808070756@nc.rr.com> References: <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost> <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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At 05:07 AM 8/8/2001, Neill Robins wrote: >GL> Note that the reboot sequence for CP/M was simply ^C. "Inventing" >GL> Ctrl-Alt-Del was simply a matter of finding a new mapping for the >GL> function. > >GL> Greg > >David Bradley teaches in the Electrical and Computer Engineering >department at my university now and makes it a point that >everybody knows the above statement. ( http://www.ece.ncsu.edu ) Of course, CP/M was so incredibly simple that the "reboot" (such as it was) took only a fraction of a second. Also, IIRC, only PART of CP/M was reloaded by that "warm" boot. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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