[ale] Differences in UNIX & UNIX-like systems...

[Greg Freemyer]

On 10/19/06, Danny Cox <DCox at icc.net> wrote:
>
>         Well, if we're going to tell old-fart war stories...
>
>         I began using a Perkin-Elmer 3210 (about a VAX 11-750 class mini)
> in
> the fall of '81, I think.


I haven't thought about a PE 3210 in a long time.

I wrote my first Unix device driver for a PE 3210 while consulting at Delta
in '82 I think.  I had no idea what I was doing (straight out of college and
all my low-level experience was Z-80), but I had some convoluted assembly
language scheme in mind to give me access to the hardware.  I called
Wallogong for some support, and they asked me "Why aren't you using the
standard device drive model/API?"

What a revalation that UNIX had a user accessible device driver mechanism.

Shit, that was 25 years ago.  I must be wrong, maybe it was 2001 when I was
doing that.  :)

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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