2 Apr
2016
2 Apr
'16
2:17 a.m.
On 2016-04-02 04:00, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
On Saturday, 2 April 2016 at 1:06:58 +1100, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
Bah! The RK8E bootloader for OS/8: 2 words... :-)
Johnny
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, scj(a)yaccman.com wrote:
I was thinking more of the RIM loader on the PDP-8. 16 words or 24
bytes. ... and I once heard an old-timer growl at a
young programmer "I've
written boot loaders that were shorter than your variable names!"
Ah, the 512-byte boot blocks... We got pretty inventive in those days
(and this was before secondary loaders!) with line editing etc.