Re: [opensuse] Re: A BIG "show stopper" for openSUSE at the?corporate level anyway!!



On Wednesday 16 July 2008 08:44:36 am Dave Howorth wrote:
Philipp Thomas wrote:
Reminds me that AFAIK, IBM once had the idea for a trade show (after
their S/390 port) to bootstrap the kernel from punch cards and discovered
that given the size of the kernel, it would take ages to do so and so
dropped the project :)

Yeah, you'd need paper tape at least :)

Cheers, Dave

I work on a machine that still uses paper(mylar) tape to reload it's base
functions and then another that loads the'program' to drill holes in parts.

Mike
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