Re: What is ELF?

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From: Jackie McNabb
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 00:00

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Mark H. North (north@nosc.mil) wrote:
: kosowsky@bellini.harvard.edu (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:

: >In article <3qg5sf$4gh@nyx10.cs.du.edu> pwayne@aol.com (Peter M. Wayne) writes:
: >>    Can anyone explain me what is ELF? How does it work? What are its
: >>   advantages?  Please post, we have a size limit on our mailfolder.

: >I recall that ELF was the name for a single board 6502 based
: >microcomputer whose schematics were first published in Popular
: >Electronics back in about 1978? I think that a kit was then sold by a
: >company called Newport Electronics.  It was programmed of course in
: >machine code -- I'm not sure whether a BASIC interpreter was even
: >available.  Anyway, I almost bought one, but as a high school kid I
: >could not afford the <$200 price tag.  I did dream about buying one
: >though...

: >Just thought that I would share this piece of nostalgia, since just
: >about every other usage of ELF has been mentioned. Anybody else
: >remember this distant ancestor of today's PC's?

Hey, I built one of those things... I used a perfboard and wire wrap.
I was the first 16 year old in town with his own 'computer'  :}

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From: mcnabb@winnie.fit.edu (Jackie McNabb)
Subject: Re: What is ELF?
Date: 1995/06/08
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