> "rob" == Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rob> On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't
>> > researched it yet though...)
>>
>> GEM was a gui from
rob == Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
rob On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't
researched it yet though...)
GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
Kai Henningsen wrote:
> No. GEM, I believe, originally came from CP/M. Most popular as the
> windowing system of the Atari ST; given that someone did a quick-hack MS-
> DOS clone to support it on the 68K, it seems fairly obvious that by that
> time, it had already been ported to MS-DOS. (GEM-DOS
Kai Henningsen wrote:
No. GEM, I believe, originally came from CP/M. Most popular as the
windowing system of the Atari ST; given that someone did a quick-hack MS-
DOS clone to support it on the 68K, it seems fairly obvious that by that
time, it had already been ported to MS-DOS. (GEM-DOS is
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:26:55AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> a DF-32 for PDP 8 systems with 32 K bytes of disk space
32768 13-bit words (12-bit plus parity)
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:09:41AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > The AS400 seems to be based out of Austin. We hear a lot about it around
> > > here...
> >
> > Ummm, the
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Monday 25 June 2001 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> > I learnt my computing on a PDP8/E with papertape punch/reader, RALF,
> > Fortran II, then later 2.4Mb removable cartridges (RK05 I think). toggling
> > in the bootstrap improved your concentration.
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > The AS400 seems to be based out of Austin. We hear a lot about it around
> > here...
>
> Ummm, the AS/400 was based out of Rochester, Minnesota at least initially. It
> was the
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Michael Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
The AS400 seems to be based out of Austin. We hear a lot about it around
here...
Ummm, the AS/400 was based out of Rochester, Minnesota at least initially. It
was the follow to
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Monday 25 June 2001 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
I learnt my computing on a PDP8/E with papertape punch/reader, RALF,
Fortran II, then later 2.4Mb removable cartridges (RK05 I think). toggling
in the bootstrap improved your concentration. Much
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:09:41AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Michael Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
The AS400 seems to be based out of Austin. We hear a lot about it around
here...
Ummm, the AS/400 was based
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:26:55AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
a DF-32 for PDP 8 systems with 32 K bytes of disk space
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Rob Landley wrote:
>
> On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote:
>
> > 1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits,"
> >
> > 1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information.
> >
> > without those you're kind in trouble on the computing front...
>
> Yeah, I
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:15, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2001 17:15, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
> >
> > you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then
> > you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
>
t on the linux-kernel list but a friend forwarded me this message:
> > Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
> > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:11:01 +0100 (BST)
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer
> >
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2001 15:23, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>
> > The AS/400 is still going strong. It's a virtual machine based on a
> > relational database (among other things), mostly programmed in COBOL (I
> > think the C compiler has
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:44:53AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> Okay, so they're 2.4 megabyte removable cartridges? How big? Are they tapes
> or disk packs? (I.E. can you run off of them or are they just storage?) I
> know lots of early copies of unix were sent out from Bell Labs on RK05
>
There seems to be a bug in the mail routing again. It may be related to the
recent problem with ditto copier history outbreaks on Linux S/390 and the
infamous 'pdp-11 memory subsystem' article routing bug that plagued
comp.os.minix once.
In the meantime can people check that their mailer hasnt
At 10:44 AM -0400 2001-06-26, Rob Landley wrote:
>"A quarter century of unix" mentions RK05 cartridges several times, but never
>says much ABOUT them.
>
>Okay, so they're 2.4 megabyte removable cartridges? How big? Are they tapes
>or disk packs? (I.E. can you run off of them or are they just
On Monday 25 June 2001 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi again,
>
>
>
> some old brain-cells got excited with the "good-ol-days" and other names
> have surfaced like "Superbrain","Sirius" and "Apricot".Sirius was Victor in
> the USA. If you go done the so-called IBM compatible route then the
On Monday 25 June 2001 15:23, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> The AS/400 is still going strong. It's a virtual machine based on a
> relational database (among other things), mostly programmed in COBOL (I
> think the C compiler has sizeof(void*) == 16 or something like that, so
> you can put a database
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 17:15, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
>
> you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then
> you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
Yes, and the source actually was open for a short time when
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then
you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
> I think I remember that DR-DOS was the name that Caldera
> gave to the Digital Research OS, previously known as GEMDOS,
Ah, fame at last :-)
I'm not on the linux-kernel list but a friend forwarded me this message:
> Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:11:01 +0100 (BST)
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer
>
Ah, fame at last :-)
I'm not on the linux-kernel list but a friend forwarded me this message:
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:11:01 +0100 (BST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer
Engineering degree
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then
you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
I think I remember that DR-DOS was the name that Caldera
gave to the Digital Research OS, previously known as GEMDOS,
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 17:15, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then
you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
Yes, and the source actually was open for a short time when Caldera
On Monday 25 June 2001 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
some old brain-cells got excited with the good-ol-days and other names
have surfaced like Superbrain,Sirius and Apricot.Sirius was Victor in
the USA. If you go done the so-called IBM compatible route then the nearly
On Monday 25 June 2001 15:23, Kai Henningsen wrote:
The AS/400 is still going strong. It's a virtual machine based on a
relational database (among other things), mostly programmed in COBOL (I
think the C compiler has sizeof(void*) == 16 or something like that, so
you can put a database
At 10:44 AM -0400 2001-06-26, Rob Landley wrote:
A quarter century of unix mentions RK05 cartridges several times, but never
says much ABOUT them.
Okay, so they're 2.4 megabyte removable cartridges? How big? Are they tapes
or disk packs? (I.E. can you run off of them or are they just
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:44:53AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
Okay, so they're 2.4 megabyte removable cartridges? How big? Are they tapes
or disk packs? (I.E. can you run off of them or are they just storage?) I
know lots of early copies of unix were sent out from Bell Labs on RK05
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2001 15:23, Kai Henningsen wrote:
The AS/400 is still going strong. It's a virtual machine based on a
relational database (among other things), mostly programmed in COBOL (I
think the C compiler has
forwarded me this message:
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:11:01 +0100 (BST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer
Engineering degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think
they and Queen Margaret
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:15, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 17:15, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then
you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
Yes, and
Rob Landley wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote:
1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits,
1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information.
without those you're kind in trouble on the computing front...
Yeah, I know I've bumped
There seems to be a bug in the mail routing again. It may be related to the
recent problem with ditto copier history outbreaks on Linux S/390 and the
infamous 'pdp-11 memory subsystem' article routing bug that plagued
comp.os.minix once.
In the meantime can people check that their mailer hasnt
> /> > GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe. /
> /> > Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity. /
> /> /
> /> Ah, the DR-DOS answer to dosshell/windows. Cool. (I used Dr. Dos
> byt never /
> /> tried its gui.) /
>
> Actually I believe GEM predates DR-DOS, and except for being
> made by the
Hi again,
some old brain-cells got excited with the "good-ol-days" and other names have
surfaced like "Superbrain","Sirius" and "Apricot".Sirius was Victor in the
USA. If you go done the so-called IBM compatible route then the nearly
compatible nightmares will arise and haunt you, your
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:17:09AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote:
> > 1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits,"
> >
> > 1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information.
> >
> > without those you're kind in trouble on
On Monday 25 June 2001 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you're really keen on old mags and manuals I'll go up to attic and look
> around. I know there are old SCO Xenix & TCP/IP, as well as Byte and Dr
> Dobbs
>
Ooh! Yes! Very much so.
Thanks,
Rob
The mailing list for this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Landley) wrote on 24.06.01 in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Now if somebody here could just point me to a decent reference on A/UX -
> Apple's mid-80's version of Unix (for the early macintosh, I believe...)
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2ba/ux%22
Usually a good idea.
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote:
> 1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits,"
>
> 1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information.
>
> without those you're kind in trouble on the computing front...
Yeah, I know I've bumped into that name (and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Landley) wrote on 23.06.01 in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> on April 2, 1987. (models 50, 60, and 80.) The SAA/SNA push also extended
> through the System/370 and AS400 stuff too. (I think 370's the mainframe
> and AS400 is the minicomputer, but I'd have to look it up. One
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:27:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering
> degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think they and Queen Margaret
> College, London were the first folk running Unix version 6
gt;, "Eric W. Biederman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
Hi,
I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering
degree at H
>
>
>
>
> Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/24/2001 09:32:43 AM
>
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Altec, John Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
Hi,
I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering
degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think they and Queen
Margaret
College, London were the first folk running Unix version 6 outside Bell Labs.
If anyone knows where Patrick O'Callaghan is now (ask
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2001 23:07, Mike Castle wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:41:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first
> > > exposure to Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rob Landley wrote:
On Saturday 23 June 2001 23:07, Mike Castle wrote:
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:41:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first
exposure to Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some
:32:43 AM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Altec, John Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories
Hi,
I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering
degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think they and Queen
Margaret
College, London were the first folk running Unix version 6 outside Bell Labs.
If anyone knows where Patrick O'Callaghan is now (ask
. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
Hi,
I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering
degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:27:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering
degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think they and Queen Margaret
College, London were the first folk running Unix version 6
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Landley) wrote on 23.06.01 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
on April 2, 1987. (models 50, 60, and 80.) The SAA/SNA push also extended
through the System/370 and AS400 stuff too. (I think 370's the mainframe
and AS400 is the minicomputer, but I'd have to look it up. One of
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote:
1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits,
1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information.
without those you're kind in trouble on the computing front...
Yeah, I know I've bumped into that name (and probably
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Landley) wrote on 24.06.01 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Now if somebody here could just point me to a decent reference on A/UX -
Apple's mid-80's version of Unix (for the early macintosh, I believe...)
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2ba/ux%22
Usually a good idea.
On Monday 25 June 2001 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
If you're really keen on old mags and manuals I'll go up to attic and look
around. I know there are old SCO Xenix TCP/IP, as well as Byte and Dr
Dobbs
Ooh! Yes! Very much so.
Thanks,
Rob
The mailing list for this discussion
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:17:09AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote:
1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits,
1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information.
without those you're kind in trouble on the computing
Hi again,
some old brain-cells got excited with the good-ol-days and other names have
surfaced like Superbrain,Sirius and Apricot.Sirius was Victor in the
USA. If you go done the so-called IBM compatible route then the nearly
compatible nightmares will arise and haunt you, your lucky if the
/ GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe. /
/ Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity. /
/ /
/ Ah, the DR-DOS answer to dosshell/windows. Cool. (I used Dr. Dos
byt never /
/ tried its gui.) /
Actually I believe GEM predates DR-DOS, and except for being
made by the same company I
On Sunday 24 June 2001 22:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry, but I'm hanging on to my old computer manuals. The AIX manuals in
> particular have sentimemtal value for me.
Entirely undersandable.
Would you be willing to xerox any "introduction" or "about" sections?
> OTOH, I have quite a
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:20:40AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Sunday 24 June 2001 12:36, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
> > > Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity.
> >
> > Ah, the DR-DOS
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't
> > > researched it yet though...)
> >
> > GEM was a gui from Digital Research I
.
Wayne
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/24/2001 09:32:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sunday 24 June 2001 18:41, Chris Meadors wrote:
> Okay, I brushed on GEOS, Microsoft, Xenix, and even Linux. So I'm as on
> topic as the rest of this thread. I just have never told my story on l-k,
> and this seemed a good place to put a little of it in. :)
>
> -Chris
On Sunday 24 June 2001 21:45, Jeff Dike wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Licklidder wasn't just a bigwig behind arpanet, he also kicked off
> > project mac at MIT.
>
> You're right, but you could at least spell his name right - J. C. R.
> Licklider.
>
> Jeff (who was his last
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rob Landley wrote:
> I know the geos had nothing to do with digital, it started as a
> windowing GUI for the commodore 64, if you can believe that...
I've actually got a copy, but it's for the Apple // :}
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st 24, 1995 I would delete Windows from
my machine and never use it again. Well I can't say that I have held
complete faithful to that vow, but I have had Linux on my machine ever
since then. Now my computer is Windows free and has been for a year and a
half.
Okay, I brushed on GEOS, Microsoft, Xeni
On Sunday 24 June 2001 12:36, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
> > Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity.
>
> Ah, the DR-DOS answer to dosshell/windows. Cool. (I used Dr. Dos byt
> never tried its
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't
> > researched it yet though...)
>
> GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
> Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity.
Ah,
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first
> exposure to Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those
> weird-sized RT AIX manuals around somewhere...
>
> Wayne
Ooh! Old manuals!
Would you be
On Saturday 23 June 2001 23:07, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:41:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first
> > exposure to Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those
> > weird-sized RT AIX manuals
On Saturday 23 June 2001 20:49, John Adams wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:07, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Here's what I'm looking for:
> >
> > AIX was first introduced for the IBM RT/PC in 1986, which came out of the
> > early RISC research. It was ported to PS/2 and S/370 by SAA, and was
> >
On Saturday 23 June 2001 20:13, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > That would be the X version of emacs. And there's the explanation
> > for the split between GNU and X emacs: it got forked and the
> > closed-source version had a vew years of divergent
On Saturday 23 June 2001 20:13, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That would be the X version of emacs. And there's the explanation
for the split between GNU and X emacs: it got forked and the
closed-source version had a vew years of divergent development
On Saturday 23 June 2001 23:07, Mike Castle wrote:
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:41:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first
exposure to Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those
weird-sized RT AIX manuals around
On Saturday 23 June 2001 20:49, John Adams wrote:
On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:07, Rob Landley wrote:
Here's what I'm looking for:
AIX was first introduced for the IBM RT/PC in 1986, which came out of the
early RISC research. It was ported to PS/2 and S/370 by SAA, and was
based on
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first
exposure to Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those
weird-sized RT AIX manuals around somewhere...
Wayne
Ooh! Old manuals!
Would you be willing to
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't
researched it yet though...)
GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity.
Ah, the DR-DOS
On Sunday 24 June 2001 12:36, Rob Landley wrote:
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity.
Ah, the DR-DOS answer to dosshell/windows. Cool. (I used Dr. Dos byt
never tried its gui.)
GEM
from
my machine and never use it again. Well I can't say that I have held
complete faithful to that vow, but I have had Linux on my machine ever
since then. Now my computer is Windows free and has been for a year and a
half.
Okay, I brushed on GEOS, Microsoft, Xenix, and even Linux. So I'm
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rob Landley wrote:
I know the geos had nothing to do with digital, it started as a
windowing GUI for the commodore 64, if you can believe that...
I've actually got a copy, but it's for the Apple // :}
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On Sunday 24 June 2001 21:45, Jeff Dike wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Licklidder wasn't just a bigwig behind arpanet, he also kicked off
project mac at MIT.
You're right, but you could at least spell his name right - J. C. R.
Licklider.
Jeff (who was his last
On Sunday 24 June 2001 18:41, Chris Meadors wrote:
Okay, I brushed on GEOS, Microsoft, Xenix, and even Linux. So I'm as on
topic as the rest of this thread. I just have never told my story on l-k,
and this seemed a good place to put a little of it in. :)
-Chris
I just created a mailing
.
Wayne
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/24/2001 09:32:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, yes
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't
researched it yet though...)
GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:20:40AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Sunday 24 June 2001 12:36, Rob Landley wrote:
On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity.
Ah, the DR-DOS answer to
On Sunday 24 June 2001 22:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, but I'm hanging on to my old computer manuals. The AIX manuals in
particular have sentimemtal value for me.
Entirely undersandable.
Would you be willing to xerox any introduction or about sections?
OTOH, I have quite a few old
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:41:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first exposure to
> Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those weird-sized RT AIX
> manuals around somewhere...
We always ran AOS on RT's. Actually,
Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:07, Rob Landley wrote:
> Here's what I'm looking for:
>
> AIX was first introduced for the IBM RT/PC in 1986, which came out of the
> early RISC research. It was ported to PS/
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To: "Alan Chandler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: "Rob Landley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (bcc: Wayne
Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: RE: Microsoft and Xenix.
> I hope the following adds a more dir
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't researched
> it yet though...)
GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity.
It's been a long time since I looked but they both run fine under
On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:07, Rob Landley wrote:
> Here's what I'm looking for:
>
> AIX was first introduced for the IBM RT/PC in 1986, which came out of the
> early RISC research. It was ported to PS/2 and S/370 by SAA, and was
> based on unix SVR2. (The book didn't specify whether the
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That would be the X version of emacs. And there's the explanation
> for the split between GNU and X emacs: it got forked and the
> closed-source version had a vew years of divergent development
> before opening back up, by which point it was very
On Friday 22 June 2001 18:41, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I am not subscribed to the list, but I scan the archives and saw the
> following. Please cc e-mail me in followups.
I've had several requests to start a mailing list on this, actually... Might
do so in a bit...
> I was working (and still
ming, and networking which was related to both the user and
system level. Then again Unix spun out of porting a flight simulator to the
PDP 7. It's not QUITE that black and white...)
In any case, gates was on the Xerox side and Allen was on the BTL side. When
Allen left microsoft, Xenix followed soo
> I hope the following adds a more direct perspective on this, as I
> was a user at the time.
I was _almost_ at university :-). However I do have a first edition
of the IBM Xenix Software Development Guide from december 1984. It has
'84 IBM copyright and '83 MS copyright. The SCO stuff I have
I hope the following adds a more direct perspective on this, as I
was a user at the time.
I was _almost_ at university :-). However I do have a first edition
of the IBM Xenix Software Development Guide from december 1984. It has
'84 IBM copyright and '83 MS copyright. The SCO stuff I have goes
. Then again Unix spun out of porting a flight simulator to the
PDP 7. It's not QUITE that black and white...)
In any case, gates was on the Xerox side and Allen was on the BTL side. When
Allen left microsoft, Xenix followed soon after. (First SCO was helping,
then over the next few years the whole
On Friday 22 June 2001 18:41, Alan Chandler wrote:
I am not subscribed to the list, but I scan the archives and saw the
following. Please cc e-mail me in followups.
I've had several requests to start a mailing list on this, actually... Might
do so in a bit...
I was working (and still am)
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