>software can be gotten from a vintage computer and published, or from a
>publishing site back to that vintage computer. Please don't take away
>our last data path to what is to many of us, a very old and trusted dear
>friend. OS9, and later Nitros9, on a TRS-80 Color Computer, was my
>teacher about unix-like systems, running a multiuser/multitasking
>operating system on a machine with only 64k of ram, although my current
>machine has 2 megs in it. And I occasionally still miss some of the
>things I could do on that little machine that I have not been able to do
>since, like start an assembly that generates an output listing, and
>switch to another monitor or window & list that listing to the screen a
>maximum of 256 bytes behind the writing of that listing to the disk file
>it was going to.
>
>The floppy may not be usefull to linux anymore, but in support of other
>older formats, it is priceless.
>
>>> Stefan Seyfried
>>
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