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Subject:	Re: HHEELLPPP! parts tracker messed up
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:12:09 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Dan Boger writes: > In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote: > > > > I think Dan was writing from the perspective of the PT code, which > > treats the line feed character as the terminator, and the carriage > > return as just an odd character at the end of the line of text... > > exactly - besides, in real OSs, the line is terminated by the LF, and > the CR is the llast char on the line :) But real OSs don't know anything about lines! And they're booted by entering a JMP instruction with switches on the front panel & executing it... ROSCO FUT: .o-t.geek

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		Re: HHEELLPPP! parts tracker messed up
(...) Front panel?!? What kind of hardware are you on? Real computers for real OSs don't have a front panel. You solder your switches directly onto the board... ;-) Jacob (24 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: HHEELLPPP! parts tracker messed up
(...) exactly - besides, in real OSs, the line is terminated by the LF, and the CR is the llast char on the line :) Dan (24 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad)

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