30 Aug
2018
30 Aug
'18
8:31 p.m.
At least in the old days drives had Write Protect switches.
Screw IBM for the in cable drive select lines on diskette and leaving off Write Protect on
hard disks. Some disks had write protect jumpers on the boards... They should have been
The STANDARD.
Bill
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On Aug 30, 2018, 09:25, at 09:25, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:07 AM
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
I use the numbers but I think it stems from the
days when kill didn't
take
the names. It's easier for me to remember
-1 and -9 than to
remember
what
the mnemonics are.
Same here - there first time I saw the mnemonics were in the built-in
kill
command in csh. Which was usefule for "kill -cont"
but to this day, since like Ron I grew on fifth/sixth/seventh edition
which
used numbers, the ones that I remember and care about are screwed into
my
fingers.
I never have an issue with -1 vs -9 with kill, but I do not have great
story about how as a young engineer I wiped out the life's work of
visiting
professor because Tektronix had the 0 and 1 keys next to each other on
one
of the terminals they made. It was the console of our 11/60 and we had
two
RK05's and I fat fingured /dev/r...0 instead of 1. Bad stuff.
Clem