We used to call them "executives"; small continuous loops that polled various hardware locations and/or waited around for interrupts. Simple, efficient, and relatively easy to see what was going on with a piece of hardware so programmed.
snipped-for-privacy@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) wrote in news:2793e$413fbd3b$44a75e7a$ snipped-for-privacy@msgid.meganewsservers.com:
It is just this sort of attention to detail that makes ubergeeks so valuable in the IT department, and so likely to eat lunch by themselves...;-)
Patriarch, who gave it all up for...
You got me! I'd forgotten that one :-). And we had one of the first
360s (a model 20?) at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City. Another place I worked had a 360/30 on order and cancelled it in favor of an 1130.But the very first "o/s" that I know of and used was XX3000 for the Univac. It handled all the (tape) I/O and let you embed your own code in the middle. High technology for the time :-).
Especially when you consider that it outperforms the early hardware.
Charlie--my Win98 desk machine (Compaq 5660, PII@450) came with USB, so it is supported. Stepdaughter's laptop (Compaq Prosignia, 233mhz) also came with it.
Same market I'm in, but I'm just beginning to search. Good luck looking.
Dan
The OSR2 release for Win95 provided limited USB functionality for a few devices (HID primarily I believe... mice and a few keyboards). Full USB support was in Win98. (Or "fool support" if you're a Linux person talking about Windows...)
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