30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
3:08 p.m.
From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>
IIRC, Slack v3.3 took 54 1.44MB disks.
Interesting.
I recall installing something I think was slack with a 0.99 kernel around 1993-4. The
i386 with 5M ram and a 40MB HD that ran it was a sporty box back then. I remember
bitching 'cause it was something more than a dozen floppies or so. But it had a C
compiler, so I could do my homework (and not dial into an AT&T 3b20 or drive in to
campus and use a Sun 3).
And it was my UUCP node: ...!ucbvax!gatech!weasel!ken.
Good times...good times...
54 floppies? Wow...you've got more patience than me.
Ken