1 Jan
2020
1 Jan
'20
15:11
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" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org