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Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret) (Link Only per copyright)
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| Mar 22, 2017
| By Cade Metz
Posted on 03/22/2017 2:18:07 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: dayglored
I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models... You lucky bastard. I once had to boot a DEC 8810 running Ultrix off 8" floppies. Ugh.
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posted on
03/22/2017 7:11:13 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
To: zeugma; Swordmaker
>
You lucky bastard. I once had to boot a DEC 8810 running Ultrix off 8" floppies. Ugh. Wow. Ultrix on floppies. I didn't know that was possible.
Back around 1982 I had a Tektronix 8550 MSD (microprocessor dev system) that consisted of two units: an 8301 with the uP emulators/debugger electronics, and an 8501 dual-floppy storage box. The latter was based on a DEC LSI-11/23 (a small PDP-11 on a board). Usually you booted it to the MDS software, but the Tek FAE bootlegged me a copy of DEC RT/11 for the LSI/11-23. That was my first experience with DEC stuff since the PDP-8E that launched me into small computers in 1974...
Anyway, the RT diskette booted real RT-11 with high-falutin programs like PIP (remember PIP?).
But he also scammed a copy of ADVEN -- Colossal Cave Adventure ("Adventure"), all text based of course... "YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING..."
Ah, those were the days... :-)
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posted on
03/22/2017 8:37:20 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored; zeugma; Swordmaker
D-uh... I forgot the point of that digression -- those LSI-11/23 RT-11 floppies were all 8", dual-sided, double density. A big deal in those days...
And I can't type -- it's "MDS", not "MSD".
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posted on
03/22/2017 8:41:01 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
And I can't type -- it's "MDS", not "MSD". Welcome to my boat. . . grab an oar and start paddling.
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posted on
03/22/2017 10:20:04 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
I think all but 2 of the 10” disks were in my boss’s filing cabinet. He required me to sign my life away to get possession of the 2. I was the only person in the company who knew how to use the computer that they worked on, but I couldn’t pry more than 2 of them out of him.
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posted on
03/23/2017 10:02:21 AM PDT
by
generally
( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
To: Swordmaker
Getting your pr0n faster.
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posted on
03/23/2017 10:05:27 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dayglored
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posted on
03/23/2017 10:06:40 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
>
> Kill troll with sword And the ever-popular:
kill dragon
WITH WHAT? YOUR BARE HANDS?
yes
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE JUST VANQUISHED A DRAGON
WITH YOUR BARE HANDS! (UNBELIEVABLE, ISN'T IT?)
Not to mention "XYZZY".
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posted on
03/23/2017 11:08:49 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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