3 Jan
1998
3 Jan
'98
2:12 p.m.
Olminkhof wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, 4 January 1998 11:46
Subject: Re: UNIX questions?
You're right -- they _have_. It wasn't there a couple of weeks ago
when I was printing out all of the manuals (which are the best that
I've ever seen outside of the Linux Documentation Project -- they make
the manuals that used to come with MS-DOS look like crap). Well, that
takes care of my lunch hour Monday while I dump it from the T-1 to a
Zip disk. Have to remember to grab a sandwich at Blimpy's at Newark
Penn Station in the morning.
Yes, I know a Zip disk has a lot more space than will be needed -- but
for some reason I've taken to isolating my archives to avoid confusion.
All of my material from Tim Mann's TRS-80 site is on one, all of my
AT&T Unix PC material is on another, and so on for the Color Computer,
the ST, the Mod 100 etc. Eventually, I'll wind up burning a couple of
CDs -- since somebody was kind enough to find an excuse for one at work.
Pity that it's attached to an NT box, since I'd prefer to use proper
Unix filenames -- but maybe I can sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Htalk my boss into
letting me hook it up to one of my RS/6000s for a couple of hours.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
It'll be nice when Caldera follows up on their
promise to release the
source code for CP/M and DR-DOS (now OpenDOS). _That_ will definitely
have some results on-topic for this mailing list.
Ward Griffiths
They already HAVE released the source code for OpenDOS. While it is far
beyond me to do anything with it, I found it very well commented and
interesting. I was amazed at the number of "fixes" for specific hardware.