windows , yeah, real good stuff...

[Bill Vermillion]

On or about Thu, Jan 06 12:33 , while attempting a Zarathustra 
emulation Jay R. Ashworth thus spake: 

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:23:49PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
> > In the early '90s I developed an automatic backup system
> > for DOS/Windows, only because I found a working version
> > of perl and a decent editor, elvis. I couldn't use perl
> > for everything because of memory limitations, so use it to
> > write .bat files on the fly, exec them, with the batch file
> > invoking another perl script to do the heavy lifting.

> Oh, *ghod*...

> I did this on... an old NorthStar system?... back in the early 80s.  I
> had a 'batch' file that called a basic program that wrote a second
> batch file, then exited, and the first one then called the second one.

And for bonus points in out trivia contest - what was the original
name for Northstar computers, and why did they have to change it ?

It has nothing to do with filePro, but it's lost to most people
in computer history.

I suspect Jay and Ken will know right of the top of their heads,
but how about the rest?

Bill
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