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On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, tom wrote:
> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> ...
>> 173000 Load address ... Run ...
>>
> flipping flipping big switches to load in the code to load the boot code
> from a cassette tape on an ICL machine used by 20 engineers or so. Line
> printers that could throw fanfold ten feet in the air when printing
> things that no-one ever read
Ah yes, it's still there:
gordon @ yakko: fgrep -i fire /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/lp.c
printk(KERN_INFO "lp%d on fire\n", minor);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
... the precursor of office software I
> guess. The only air conditioning in the building was in the machine room
> - I could do with a machine room right now!
> Managers who could manage...or was that just an hallucination like job
> satisfaction? No, job satisfaction was allowed then...
I was in a university environment then, so no real management :)
Gordon
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