From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7C916E70-3B54-4509-BBFB-0B86EC5F7372@orthanc.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 01:31:17 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2cef99d4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Professionals, maybe, but backyard hackers had little reason to care. But the pro's had the commercial distributions; I don't think it really mattered to them. (I had Irix and Solaris (and SCO :-P) at work. My interest in *BSD was to have something I could experiment with outside of my day job.) > Linux had no graphics (nor had the BSDs) I don't think that's true. X11 was around and reasonably portable. (BSDi had it in the alpha and beta releases circa 1993.) > and KA9Q as networking Phil's code had a narrow audience at the time. I ran both NOS and early Linux at the time, and settled on NOS because it was more reliable than the Linux kernels of the day. The Linux code was also almost impossible to configure and install at that time. I ended up running a mailing list for six months off a PC running NOS. Ugly, but it worked. (But NOS kicked Linux hands down for the radio side of things, and I was running a couple of high-traffic AX25 gateways at the time.) --lyndon