-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2020 16.11, James Knott wrote:
On 2020-01-01 10:03 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
In the "dark ages" a technician had to load the boot code with a bank of swithces, instruction by instruction. Write a word, flip a switch to load, then the next word. Finally, another button to "run". Then the machine knew how to load things from something else (cards, tape, whatever). Apparently, they had no "bios" or no bios boot code.
Anyone else here remember the PDP-8 RIM loader? Or the IPL button on mainframes?
IPL - "Initial Program Load"
No, I only heard tales from them; the most ancient machine I touched was a VAX. Oh, I saw the IBM at my father machine at his job place several years before. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXgy5AQAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1Y8bAKCUzp/8BGtpfGtUCkcnGDnGiMC+eQCfV7yNFJOoRCy0B8GMFr4qSDDM7ME= =1ijm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org