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| From | Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall |
| Date | 2015-09-03 08:35 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <d4qf2nFdu0iU31@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <l7meuadtmbienql1ql0ulr7iiknaajnial@4ax.com> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1509021733420.7903@darkstar.example.org> <d4p9nnFdu0iU26@mid.individual.net> <1860611878462935405.179634peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> |
On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:12:33 +0000, Peter Flass wrote: > Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:35:51 -0400, Michael Black wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Louis Krupp wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 11:06:26 -0700 (PDT), hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 9:21:50 PM UTC-4, Louis Krupp wrote: >>>>>> I'm interested in hearing from computer museums that have -- or >>>>>> want to start -- a library. Some of these books will be worth >>>>>> keeping, others will be good for door prizes (old books on compiler >>>>>> design, VAX architecture manuals -- all cool stuff, but how many >>>>>> copies does one library need?), and others -- well, I can't >>>>>> complain if they turn out to be worthless (there was a time when I >>>>>> saved Pascal manuals). >>>>> >>>>> To be honest, would people really care about PC DOS 3.3? Quick >>>>> Basic compiler 4.5, including a section on utilizing expanded and >>>>> extended memory? >>>> >>>> They might care about, say, the Pick OS. And how about the Operating >>>> System Toolbox, the "software construction set you can use to build >>>> your own multitasking Personal Operating System for IBM-PC, PC/XT and >>>> PC/AT computers"? Wendin published a manual for that and one on >>>> PCVMS, >>>> which as far as I can tell was a VMS look-alike that ran on top of >>>> PCDOS, in 1986. >>>> >>>> Then there are books like _Inside Big Blue: Will the Real IBM Please >>>> Stand Up?_, published in 1988 by Jack Martin, according the liner >>>> notes an IBM employee from 1952 to 1987. There's C. Gordon Bell and >>>> Allen Newell's 1971 _Computer Structures: Readings and Examples_, >>>> which includes a 1967 IEEE Transactions article called "System design >>>> of a FORTRAN machine." >>>> >>>> Ideally, the excess PCDOS and Quick Basic manuals would be recycled >>>> and turned to the paper pulp whence they came, but the good stuff >>>> would be preserved... >>>> >>> And sometimes books record a certain period of time. >>> >>> I found for a dollar each two volumes (I think that's all there were) >>> about XINU, another attempt at a Unix-like language. Considering the >>> success of Minix, and even greater success of Linux, such books are >>> important as a reminder that not only were there different paths >>> attempting the same thing, but that there was a period when we all so >>> badly wanted to have Unix on our desk. >> >> But of course Minix was only ever intended as a teaching tool. To the >> annoyance of those who wanted Tanenbaum to extend it in multiple >> directions. Of course, that's where Linux was born, sort of. >> >> I have all the Minix books, and installed the original on an IBM PC >> with two 360kB floppy drives! > > I ran it that way, and found it very painful, even at the time. I was. Did you ever recompile the whole system? I did. Once.
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Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 01:37 +0000
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