[Spridgets] Bloody computers

[Linda Grunthaner]

Jim Cool website.
Lin

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Jim Johnson <bmwwxman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/3/08, Dean Hedin <dlh2001 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > I think you mean Symmetric  Multiprocessing
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing
>
>
> Nope:   See:
> http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5978831/claims.html
>
> > I'm also old
> > > enough to have used Slackware back in the olden days!!  I ran it on an
> > old
> > > IBM with an 8088 cpu and 640K RAM on the mother board!  How times
> change!
>
>
> The GNU project began back in the mid 80s I think. You are correct that
> Volkerding released Slackware 1.0 in 1993 but its for-runners SLS and MINIX
> were already in use on the 16 bit architecture (pre-x86) of the time. I
> started with MINIX - many parts o which eventually became components of
> Slackware 1.0.
>
> FWIW, my first desktop was an early 8008 homebrew back in the late 70s. I
> still remember the excitement when I got my 8" floppy disk drive!!  Finally
> I could store code on something other than paper tape!
> --
> Cheers!!
> Jim - 68 "Spridget" in Dodge City
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> 2008!!
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