[Gllug] The BBC and Microsoft.

[Nix]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, jim at madeira.physiol.ucl.ac.uk uttered the
following:
> On 31 Oct 2001, Nix wrote:
>> I recommend implementing an OS and toolchain, even a useless one, on
>> maximally restrictive hardware; it's not just fun, it's educational too!
> 
> Now I've got to thinking about something of the sort for the Beeb I am
> sorely tempted. However I've only just got the damn thing so it'll take me
> a while to bootstrap it into a state for serious development.

Do it! Do it! :))))))

>> Most of them. I'm off on a reminiscence kick now...
> 
> Looks like a few old hackers are coming out of the woodwork again ...

Hey, at the time I was a fairly young one (must've been 15 or
thereabouts when I started out on the Unix-a-like...)

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