From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 8 23:39:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7463837B401 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 40EBB6ACE1; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:10:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:10:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Neill Robins , tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <20010809161007.V73579@wantadilla.lemis.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> <37466058997.20010808070756@nc.rr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010808143704.053c8c10@localhost> <20010809124854.H73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010808235448.045a9450@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010808235448.045a9450@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:55:31PM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 8 August 2001 at 23:55:31 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:18 PM 8/8/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> By default, it reloaded the entire "OS". > > But not the BIOS, which obviuously had to be there to do the > work. Remember that CP/M's BIOS was not in ROM but rather > was part of the OS. Ah, right, it's coming back to me. That was the second half of the second track IIRC. A warm boot would simply read in all but the last 6 or 10 sectors. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message