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No thank you kindly. I give up. This was 31 years ago and it was once-only issue. Who cares. Remembered however that COM-files were the simple ones. EXE-header
by timonoko 6y ago
No thank you kindly. I give up. This was 31 years ago and it was once-only issue. Who cares.
Remembered however that COM-files were the simple ones. EXE-headers were more complicated.
But quite obviously I made a program that read stuff from serial port. And once you had ZMODEM you could copy rest of standard MSDOS command set from anywhere. The machine was truly empty, the was only hardwired COMMAND.COM running.
- em-bee 6y agowell, that wasn't obvious to me. thank you. so you did have access to the right executables, just no direct way to get them into the machine. i only dabbled with old unix workstations. the oldest one being a machine from 1989 running apollo domain OS. and i remember booting an AIX workstation into some kind of rescue mode and using ed to fix config files (fstab probably) to allow it to boot.