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| From | Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> |
| Newsgroups | comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.editors |
| Subject | Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors |
| Date | 16 May 2025 14:13:56 GMT |
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Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote: > On 14/05/2025 10:54 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote: > > Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote: > >> On 11/02/2025 12:00 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:47:39 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote: > >>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-09 00:35: > >>>> > >>>>> So you never used core memory. > >>>> > >>>> Correct. But core memory is not intended as *persistent* memory, > >>>> even when it can be used this way. > >>> > >>> It was indeed regularly used that way. Consider that, on machines > >>> from the core memory era, there was no ?boot ROM?. The first-stage > >>> bootloader was typically around a dozen machine instructions or so, > >>> which had to be hand- entered using front-panel switches. > >> > >> I remember having to do that on a PDP-8 (was it??) in 1982-3. > > > > That seems rather late! > > For computing, yes, that might seem rather late ... but for its purpose > (Training us in how an Aust Army Direction Finding system worked) it was > quite reasonable. I don't know what the actual DF system used. I see! Yes. Defense Force systems have a very long lifecycle. In aerospace even longer, for obvious reasons. They used HP 21MX (16-bit) mini-computers in some missiles. At the time, it felt rather strange, letting an expensive computer self-destruct. Sadly enough, these days it's no longer strange at all! :-(
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Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-14 21:34 +1000
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Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-16 21:29 +1000
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