12 May
2013
12 May
'13
10:04 a.m.
On 11 May 2013 02:38, John Many Jars <john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net> wrote:
On 11 May 2013 01:37, <blstuart at
bellsouth.net> wrote:
Mine was Xenix.... man that was a long time ago!
Me too. SCO Xenix on an IBM PC-AT with 512KB of RAM. 5?" floppies, two
half-height hard disks - 20MB and 15MB, I think. One had DOS, one
Xenix. I got uucp running to the software department's shared Model 80
with the 386 edition on, but I had no idea what to /do/ with it.
We didn't have the rather expensive optional extra to enable TCP/IP,
so the machines' Ethernet cards went unused. As for C or X, forget it
- way too expensive.
I wasn't a big fan of it then and I'm not now. I run Linux because it
does the job, runs on COTS hardware and it's free. I miss some
elements of classic MacOS, and I miss BeOS - they sucked less than any
other OSes I've ever run.
I wonder what might have become of DESQview/X if Quarterdeck had got
it out before Windows 3.0. And Taos, which was an amazing bit of code.
Or what the Newton might have grown up to be. Or the Canon Cat,
possibly.
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forget your first UNIX.
Well, I will admit to a certain soft spot for 6th Edition. On the
other hand, admitting to it makes me feel really old...