10 Jun
2013
10 Jun
'13
8:44 a.m.
On 06/10/2013 11:20 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:57 AM, allison <ajp166
at verizon.net> wrote:
I seem to remember doing pretty much exactly the same thing.
My first Linux experimentation was a bit later than yours, I think.
I'm pretty sure I first tried v0.97.
Same her on Slackware, it was the common distro
then. My first linux PC was
a 486sx/33 with 8mb. Never got Xwindows working usefully due to oddball
video.
Yeah... I do remember that about X... the first time I got it working,
I did it on a 486 by hunting down a specific VLB card with one of the
Cirrus Logic chips on the list of supported hardware, then having to
go out and find more RAM for the video card because it was only
half-populated. Some parts of the "good old days" I do not
miss.
Yep. Linux was a "toy" back then; I got real work done on
SPARCstations running SunOS4. But it was pretty impressive to see a
UNIX-like system come up on PC hardware.
The first time I saw it was with 386BSD, whose boot messages...right
down to the formatting of the device probe messages...were damn near
identical to those of SunOS4. I was blown away.
Linux took awhile to grow up. Now all of my desktop work is done
under Linux; I never thought I'd say that. But fast, built-like-tanks
Sun machines running Solaris still do all the server duties here, and
will for a long while yet.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA