Re: Installing Sarge from source
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:04:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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> sometime in the far distant future, paleontologists will be debating
> the classic questions like: Which came first? The compiler or the OS?
>
Pencil and paper was enough to code up the design for the Zuse
computers, the operating system and act as the first assembler.
Compiler, OS and concepts were simultaneous.
More impressive but more limited technology from the same time frame:
Colossus had teleprinter punch tape readers that are still amongst the
fastest in existence: the tapes are read optically by running at speed
over photocells. In tests, the tape was run at 60 m.p.h (96 k.p.h):
operational speed ran at up to 30 m.p.h (48 k.p.h) - they were frightened
of the yield strength of wartime paper and the consequences of an accident.
You can solve the Y2K problem and also the leap year problem fairly
straightforwardly on this class of hardware - just run them both in
1944 :)
> This debate will echo across the galaxies and cause great rifts in
> society.
>
Join my -devel flamewar fest - I'll start it again once I've fixed my
time machine :)
> A
AC
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