Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Tony Travis wrote:
Chris Samuel wrote:
[...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch
I remember when I could bring the complete kernel sources
home on a single 3.5" floppy disk. Compressed, mind you,
not this new fangled gzip! Then came 0.9.15, 1.8MB compressed..
Hello, Chris.
3.5" floppy - you were lucky!
I 'ad t' run th'entire Minix on half a broken low-density 5.25"
floppy, and father would beat me wi a stick for wastin' precious disk
space...
...and he'd complain that there's nowt wrong wi' th'old 8" floppies!
Eee, by gum them were probably th'happiest days of mi life...
[I'm from Lancashire, not Yorkshire, BTW]
Tony.
OK, in a minute you'll have me reminiscing about booting from paper tape
and havin' to drill me own 'oles wit' me teeth...
;-)
Glad you smiled with that. Seems I find myself teaching an OS class all
of a sudden this summer. I recounted my experience with an old HP
system where the boot-loader was toggled in on front panel switches and
the OS was loaded with paper tape. The kids (whose language experience
ranges from Java to PHP, with C# thrown in for good measure) looked at
me like I was reciting either fiction or lore.
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