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Re: [SLE] Floppy drive vs. SUSE 10.0
- From: Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:35:02 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511040834.57761.gaf@xxxxxxx>
On Friday 04 November 2005 6:18 am, Allen wrote:
> PDP machines are actually quite useful as someone brought them up on here
> not long ago. they have to be big from the looks of them.
>
> for editing, I use Vi and Emacs. Vi is way older than DOS ;)
>
Vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976.
EMACS was initially born in 1972 as an upgrade of TECO. Richard Stallman
added some macro features to it n 1974. But the first official EMACS was
done by RMS in 1976. All was done at the MIT AI lab.
Both predate DOS :-)
In the early 1970s, Burger King's point of sale system was a DEC PDP-8 with
4K 12-bit core memory, and did just about everything a POS is supposed to
do. The PDP-8 was no bigger than some of today's PCs.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
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> PDP machines are actually quite useful as someone brought them up on here
> not long ago. they have to be big from the looks of them.
>
> for editing, I use Vi and Emacs. Vi is way older than DOS ;)
>
Vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976.
EMACS was initially born in 1972 as an upgrade of TECO. Richard Stallman
added some macro features to it n 1974. But the first official EMACS was
done by RMS in 1976. All was done at the MIT AI lab.
Both predate DOS :-)
In the early 1970s, Burger King's point of sale system was a DEC PDP-8 with
4K 12-bit core memory, and did just about everything a POS is supposed to
do. The PDP-8 was no bigger than some of today's PCs.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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