Re: [Ql-Users] Geek Time! Linus Torvalds and Jeremy Allison talk on the Sinclair QL

2010-10-05 Thread Petri Pellinen
Thanks for sharing, this was very interesting. LT is a really one-of-a-kind person. My only touch with him was in very odd circumstances. We were both doing our military service and in the reserve officers' school at the time (yes, he has a reserve officer rank :) ). Both of us were in the (very s

Re: [Ql-Users] Geek Time! Linus Torvalds and Jeremy Allison talk on the Sinclair QL

2010-10-04 Thread gdgqler
On 3 Oct 2010, at 17:21, Tony Firshman wrote: > > I particularly like LT's throw away answer - "Did you use GST Macro > Assembler" "No I wrote my own". > I understand that. Writing your own assembler is (a) more fun and (b) does what you want it to do. George _

Re: [Ql-Users] Geek Time! Linus Torvalds and Jeremy Allison talk on the Sinclair QL

2010-10-03 Thread Tony Firshman
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 1/Oct/10 13:20 | Oct1: Two famous ex QL'ers who made a difference in the IT world met at LinuxCon in Sao Paolo, Brazil recently. On a spare minute at an excursion to the Sao Paolo zoo they had a chat about their experiences with the Sinclair QL. This has been filmed by

Re: [Ql-Users] Geek Time! Linus Torvalds and Jeremy Allison talk on the Sinclair QL

2010-10-01 Thread gdgqler
On 1 Oct 2010, at 13:20, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: > Two famous ex QL'ers who made a difference in the IT world met at LinuxCon > in Sao Paolo, Brazil recently. On a spare minute at an excursion to the Sao > Paolo zoo they had a chat about their experiences with the Sinclair QL. This > has been film

[Ql-Users] Geek Time! Linus Torvalds and Jeremy Allison talk on the Sinclair QL

2010-10-01 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Two famous ex QL'ers who made a difference in the IT world met at LinuxCon in Sao Paolo, Brazil recently. On a spare minute at an excursion to the Sao Paolo zoo they had a chat about their experiences with the Sinclair QL. This has been filmed by Jeremy and the video is on YouTube now. Watch it! ht