Re: Average Age - Was RE: Guess I was not understood - Running Microsoft Exchange On a Linux Box - Can it be done?

["Mike McMullen" <mlm loanprocessing net>]

God, that brings back memories. I can confirm that octal address loaded
below.
Ah the joys of RSTS, RSX, PIP and BASIC.....

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens vitalstream com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Average Age - Was RE: Guess I was not understood - Running
Microsoft Exchange On a Linux Box - Can it be done?


> Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:05:57PM -0800, Burnell G. West wrote:
> >
> >>How about the days when "programming" was toggling little front
> >>panel switches and then punching the "enter" key - - -
> >
> >
> > I seem to recall a DEC PDP 8L in college that required a few bytes to
> > be hand-keyed in (by rocker-switches) to get it to read the boot
> > loader from the paper tape reader.
> >
> > Have you noticed that no one has said, "Ah, those were the days." :-)
>
> Having spent innumerable hours bitswitching in boot loaders, those
> "weren't the good old days".
>
> BTW, you didn't bit switch in any boot loader.  You were probably
> setting the address bits to 7300 octal (yes, octal!) then hitting
> "Examine" and pressing "Run" (aiming the processor at the boot PROM
> address and firing it up).  For you old PDP-11 freaks, the address was
> 177300 octal.  Remember ODT: "177300G" to boot?
>
> Yes, I fart dust!
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