Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:11:35 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: terminology and history (was Re: Re updating BIOS) Message-ID: <20200212101135.6db335fed640cea2268389be@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <CAEJNuHwebNQjGTFWFaJGqnA3BVwxqVYM9Ufrr6i69iwVmTknBg@mail.gmail.com> References: <202002120724.01C7OcSW005991@sdf.org> <CAEJNuHwebNQjGTFWFaJGqnA3BVwxqVYM9Ufrr6i69iwVmTknBg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:30:47 +0000 Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > The "amateurs from the ham radio community" are (and at least were > back in the 70s) much more skilled than you paint them. The first form > and shape of "workable" wireless data transmission was Packet Radio, > developed by and for hams. Indeed KA9Q[1] was a wonderful piece of software essentially a multi-tasking operating system with a set of useful built in applications, that started in packet radio and wound up the goto tool for getting onto the internet at home. The alternatives for getting an MS-DOS machine online were horrendous by comparison. [1] I downloaded FreeBSD 1.1 using it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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