13 May
2013
13 May
'13
3:14 p.m.
On 5/11/13 11:58 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Steven
Hirsch<snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
My first exposure to UNIX was AIX, v4.2 IIRC. Then SCO OpenDesktop
v5, then Slackware Linux, don't remember the version. I do remember I
downloaded 54 floppy images and had to rotate 10 o 12 disks through that
install. Buying 54 3.5" disks would have cost real money.
There was a screwdriver shop here that would let me unbox video cards
during that time. They'd let me look at the chips, and do "no-penalty"
exchanges till I found one that worked. Their price was I'd tell them
which specific video card worked with which release of XFree86 and give
them a copy of my config file.
One of their techs used to ding me every time I went in for spending
so much time and money on a toy OS. He kept telling me I should get
MCSE certified, make some real money, and "go places".
I'd REALLY like to find that guy now, just to be a tool. :)
Doc
Yggdrasil Linux distribution (remember them?)
I remember them. That was my first at-work Linux experience (I'd been using
Slackware at home) c. 1996.
IIRC, X was actually usable albeit a bit slow.
Yeah... I remember all the "fun" of trying to find a VGA card with a
specific Cirrus
Logic chip on it that was fully supported under X. We eventually did,
but it took
two or three tries.