[Toybox] Posix: failing by omission since 1988.

[David Seikel]

On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:51:44 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 06/26/2013 10:43:42 PM, David Seikel wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:06:28 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Remember: the S-100 systems were standardized. (IEEE 646 was it?)
> > > The PC systems were merely copying what IBM did, then what Compaq
> > > did, then copying each other. Guess which won?
> > 
> > I remember S-100, I used to work with it a looong time ago.  I don't
> > think anyone other than ancient computer geeks like me or computer
> > historians like you will remember it.  That answers your "Guess
> > which won?" question.
> 
> My first computer was a commodore 64 in 1982, I just have a hobbyist  
> interest in computer history:
> 
>    http://landley.net/S-100.mp3
>    http://landley.net/history/mirror/cpm/history.html

I predate individuals owning their own computers, so my first
computer was an IBM 5100 owned by the Education Department, an APL
version.  I can't remember the memory size.  This is what I learned to
program on.

http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html

I would call it only theoretically portable.  Sure six foot tall 14 year
old me could actually carry it short distances down the school hallway,
if I wore the harness, and leaned to one side to get it off the ground,
but I wouldn't want to try and carry it home.

Between then and actually owning my first computer, I worked on
building and programming S-100 bus based systems for big corporate and
government clients.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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