13 Jan
2005
13 Jan
'05
4:02 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 09:12 -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
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That's the year I was running the SLS distribution on a 486dx33 with 8
meg of memory - used to scream along it did. Well, apart from kernel
rebuilds; they took several hours (but things back then didn't feel like
they *needed* to be so fast, so it was no big deal).
I got a lot of uni assigments done on that system that I would have
otherwise had to use uni hardware for - to say it was just a boring old
PC it sure did the job nicely.
Hmm, actually it might have been as early as 1993 even when I first
installed Linux, not 1994...
I still had DOS on there for things like Wordperfect and 3D Studio (and
games like Wolfenstein). Which is interesting... when did LILO appear?
Was it around in those early days? I don't remember how I dual-booted
the system if not.
cheap. I
think that was probably a big part of the initial attraction to
Linux: a Unix box of your own.
It didn't take much hardware to run a real unix in 1994, even:
http://wps.com/archives/wps.com.11Apr1994/wps-hardware.html It was stuff like *this* and not linux that made
the early internet
explode. No fault of linux, it simply wasn't around then.
Hi Tom.
Are you saying that Linux wasn't around in 1994?