> On Wed 10 Jan 01, 3:07 PM, Cliff Sarginson said... > > I am glad to see I am not the only oldie on the list :) > > Bring back paper tape and drum storage I say... > > in which case you should join the united states air force. computer > operators are still being trained on papertape / card drives and drum > storage. > i can still remember having to put the source on paper tape, load the assembler, process the source to an obj paper tape, load the linker tape, load your obj tape, and then load the lib tape, and finally produce a binary on paper tape. all from a tty at 110 baud. things have certainly improved!!
> i'm having an awfully difficult time trying to understand why linus would > write this code into the kernel. was it a private walk down nostalgia > lane > or is there actually a use for it? > When you consider all the different arch'es out there and support for system console on serial, it still makes sense. How would the driver find out what it's talking to? jim > pete > > -- > Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permission to run X? > linux > In Xwrapper.config, change allowed_users from root to console. - > ------------------------------------------------------------------- ._. > "Coffee...I've conquered the Borg on coffee." [EMAIL PROTECTED] /v\ > --Kathryn Janeway on the virtues of coffee http://www.dirac.org // > \\ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- ^^ > ^^ > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > rules >
