Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Sep 1998 06:43:26 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809132357280.925-100000@bibi.arnes.si>
By author: Borut Mrak <borut@please-use-reply-to-address.com.arnes.si>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Mike Jagdis wrote:
>
> > even 16KB. I still have one - in pieces. Where can I get a copy
> > of Linux on audio tape? :-)
>
> Hmmm, that shouldn't be too hard.
>
> If you have a soundcard, try this:
>
> cat /vmlinuz >/dev/audio
>
> and plug the soundcard output into a tape recorder.
>
> :]
>
> bye,
>
> P.S.: is sounds just like a word from god, whoever might that be to us :]
>

In all seriousness, with the processing speed of modern CPUs it
probably would be a no-brainer to support data storage to tape. In
fact, it really isn't very different from the "sound card modem"
stuff (tape adds some funky failure modes that phone lines don't have,
but that can probably be ignored. Of course, all error-correction has
to be forward error correction, since it isn't possible to get
feedback from the receiver. Hmm... if nothing else, this just might
have enough hack value for someone to do it "just because".)

-hpa

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