[cctalk] Re: Ward Christensen NY Times Obituary

Yes, UUCP was literally a thing, but UNIX was unobtanium in the early computing eral - The world of the University Minicomputer. It certainly wasn't even vaguely accessible by a hobbyist running a Z80 or 6800 in the late 70's. I vividly remember being able to take home a NEC 80386 computer from my day job (I worked for a computer store selling NEC machines) during the Christmas shutdown between 1987/1988 - It had SCO Xenix installed and a new graphical system (To SCO) called 'XWindows' Unheard of - I did a heap of learning. That was probably the point where a UNIX like operating system became accessible to people. Then 386BSD arrived (1993) and Linux came (1991) into the scene and suddenly unix was everywhere - I still remember my first stack of installation media for freeBSD - something like 10 1.4MB floppies for the Binaries, and another 10 for the source files. So - yea, UUCP was around, but it wasn't alive in hobbyist circles. Kindest regards, Doug Jackson em: doug(a)doughq.com ph: 0414 986878