My goodness, Johnny, you are my hero. You, sir, lived my dream ..!!
> On Feb 26, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't mind the postings and the comments. I just > want to try and understand what you mean by them, and try to put things into > perspective, both from your side and mine. > > We're about the same age. But I was actually exposed (through computer clubs) > to PDP-11 systems at an early age, for which we had no software, so we had to > start from scratch by writing some silly monitor on paper, and put it in on > the front panel, and eventually got to a point where it could be saved to > tape, so we could boot it, and do some very simple things through that. > Of course, we also had core, so we had the software around in memory, unless > we accidentally corrupted memory as well. > > I pretty much avoided the whole microcomputer revolution, since I already had > started playing with minis, and found them so much more interesting and fun > than micros... Having PDP-11s to play with both at school and clubs, and > eventually having my own PDP-8 systems at home in the mid 80s, not to mention > hanging out at University at night, when "normal" students weren't around, to > play on the PDP-10 systems there, and connecting across the atlantic using > IMPs, and god knows all the weird stuff one was doing... > > And most OSes back then were written in assembler. Unix was more of the > exception. > > Johnny > _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
