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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: New WiFi adapter
Date: 23 Feb 2025 05:44:08 GMT
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:31:29 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    I 'started' on a PDP-11. Then all the brands of the newfangled 'home
>    computers'. DOS came along later. Learned some OS-9 on a CoCo before
>    I ever learned DOS.
>    OS-9 used to brag that it was "like Unix" - only much smaller and
>    faster

Yeah, there was a PDP-11 in my distant past too. Being Boston it ran a 
*nix that fell off the back of a truck. I preferred my CP/M box for most 
things. A 8048 cross assembler for the PDP was very expensive so I wrote 
my own on CP/M. 

I never did like multiuser systems. Mine! All mine!.