25 Feb
2017
25 Feb
'17
3:30 a.m.
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Erik E. Fair wrote:
Aside from being the name of the very large lake I
live near, the
"Tahoe" was a system from Computer Consoles, Inc. (CCI):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Consoles_Inc.
Ahh... I remember the CCI Power series very well. IIRC, there was the
5/32 (a pissy little box, until the 5/32X came along, which actually did
the Right Thing (tm) when it implemented instruction restart correctly
upon a SEGV) and the 6/32 (we had the 8MHz board, whereas most users had
the 5MHz board; "we got cycles to burn!").
Those were the days, when geeks did their best but were over-ruled by the
marketoids; oh, the stories I could tell about my STC days (known by the
geeks as "Strangled Tangled and Confused), but I'm unsure about the
Statute of Limitations...
-
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."