[geeks] Needed: A good sparc workstation

gsm at mendelson.com gsm at mendelson.com
Sun Mar 8 04:07:00 CDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 10:55:04AM +0200, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:33:43AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> At the other end of the spectrum, I frequently converse with a fellow
>> whose footprint for all his work that is approximately the size of the
>> original IBM PC's ROM, and it has to do useful (modern) work, and he
>> shares it with three other programmers.

I forgot to point out that the IBM PC had a complete tape operating
system (the original PC had a cassette tape interface on the motherboard)
and a PC port of the Micro Soft CP/M basic interpreter in ROM.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM



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