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Date:      Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:39:05 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010808143704.053c8c10@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <37466058997.20010808070756@nc.rr.com>
References:  <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost> <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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At 05:07 AM 8/8/2001, Neill Robins wrote:

>GL> Note that the reboot sequence for CP/M was simply ^C.  "Inventing"
>GL> Ctrl-Alt-Del was simply a matter of finding a new mapping for the
>GL> function.
>
>GL> Greg
>
>David Bradley teaches in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
>department at my university now and makes it a point that
>everybody knows the above statement. ( http://www.ece.ncsu.edu )

Of course, CP/M was so incredibly simple that the "reboot" (such
as it was) took only a fraction of a second. Also, IIRC, only
PART of CP/M was reloaded by that "warm" boot. 

--Brett


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