[ale] finding ubuntu mirrors

[John Pilman]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> One question always puzzled me, why would a computer manufacturer IBM
> not realize that any computer will need an OS and either write, buy, or
> license one from the start?


It seems obvious now, and IBM certainly lacked some foresight in the
matter; however, not all computers did need an operating system, at least,
not the kind of OS that is prevalent today.  I did not know much about
computers in the 70s, but I do remember that the computer we had in the
physics lab in college had to be bootstrapped into the program we wanted to
run.
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