10 May
2013
10 May
'13
6:29 p.m.
On May 10, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Seth Morabito <lists at loomcom.com> wrote:
It makes me feel like a real whippersnapper to admit
it, but ULTRIX 4.2
on a DECstation 3100 was my first introduction to any flavor of UNIX.
There was a small NFS cluster of three DECstations on campus, supporting
remote logins for a couple hundred users (not simultaneously,
obviously). It's where I cut my teeth.
You never forget your first UNIX.
Because I'm a youngster here: LinuxPPC (2.1.121, I think) on a
PowerMac 7300. Back when Linux was actually a *challenge* to
install on a Mac (but right around the time that BootX arrived,
so not as hard as it could have been). That was exciting...
but mostly because as someone who worked on Macs since I had
any cognitive capabilites to speak of, it was my first CLI
experience, too. I was contributing kernel patches within
about two years, though.
- Dave