11 May
2013
11 May
'13
1:34 p.m.
On Sat, 11 May 2013, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:51 AM, <cctalk-request at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Now THAT'S interesting!
From: "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at
gewt.net>
This is gonna show how young I am...but my first experience with Linux was
Ubuntu on an Athlon Thunderbird. (pre-6.06). I've gained quite a bit of
knowledge since then.
Can't recall my first UNIX experience proper...but it was likely FreeBSD.
That's an upgrade from the Windows ME it originally had. ;)
I had seen UNIX systems - Sun 3/60's in a lab & a VAX running Ultrix
had my first public account.
My first experiance at running UNIX was running Minix 1.x on a PC-XT.
640 kb ram, 10 mb full height MFM boat anchor & no memory protection.
Smashing process together generally made the file system eat itself
which did teach me all I ever wanted to know about said file system ;)
Next was a 3B1/UNIX PC at the tech school. We had a
dozen terminals
hanging off of it and it was a hell of a lot more pleasant than using
Cobol or RPG on the AS/400. Still it was a much "heavier" UNIX even by
then than Minix which made me appreciate the older stuff.
Of course that was around the time of 386BSD 0.1 & not too long later
came that Linux kernel... I like the BSD's better to this day.
I like the BSDs better, too.
My first client was runing Xenix 3.2.1. Then I moved
to a state
government position and got to use DG/UX & Solaris with X-terms. Till
we were forced to go to Windows... :(
This old Dell C640 from 2002 still runs Xubuntu 13.04 a whole lot
better than anything from Redmond, despite any of its bloat.
It might run NT 4 acceptably. ;)
William
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Live like you will never die, love like you've never been hurt, dance
like no-one is watching.
Alex White
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff
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