[ale] Differences in UNIX & UNIX-like systems...

[Nate Murchison]

On 10/19/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/19/06, Danny Cox <DCox at icc.net> wrote:
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> >         Well, if we're going to tell old-fart war stories...
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> >         I began using a Perkin-Elmer 3210 (about a VAX 11-750 class
> > mini) in
> > the fall of '81, I think.
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> I haven't thought about a PE 3210 in a long time.
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> I wrote my first Unix device driver for a PE 3210 while consulting at
> Delta in '82 I think.  I had no idea what I was doing (straight out of
> college and all my low-level experience was Z-80), but I had some convoluted
> assembly language scheme in mind to give me access to the hardware.  I
> called Wallogong for some support, and they asked me "Why aren't you using
> the standard device drive model/API?"
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> What a revalation that UNIX had a user accessible device driver mechanism.
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> Shit, that was 25 years ago.  I must be wrong, maybe it was 2001 when I
> was doing that.  :)
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> Greg
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> Greg Freemyer
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Is this a contest to see who has the earliest experiance?  If so I submit
that my first was with a Tektronix 8002, a machine that was DEC LSI 11/23
based.  There was no vi or emacs, but ed was a nice editor compared to
earlier options and certainly better than anything on CP/M.

I remember discussing vi with Bill Joy when he came to an AUUG meeting.


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Nate Murchison
Chief Technology Officer
American Fire and Bomb, L.L.C.
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