From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PLING_QUERY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1a5a7a26 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 04:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0117A9BD7B; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:37:26 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02C593D1F; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:37:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 26F2293D1F; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:37:01 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 589 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:36:59 AEST Received: from www.lemis.com (unknown [208.86.226.86]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F1493D06 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:36:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (unknown [192.109.197.81]) by www.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD621B72838; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 04:27:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 45130264D3F; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:27:08 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:27:08 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Warner Losh Message-ID: <20191015042708.GD7292@eureka.lemis.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bjuZg6miEcdLYP6q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: [TUHS] Simple Unix install? (was: What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --bjuZg6miEcdLYP6q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 14 October 2019 at 22:06:11 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > The second was the simplicity of the install... Clearly you weren't installing Interactive UNIX/386 from floppy, like my first experience. It was like pulling teeth. I wasn't alone. A year or two later (about 1994) I was contacted by the editorial team of iX, a German Unix magazine, asking if I had managed to install Consensys UNIX System V.4 (maybe from tape by this time). They were having such difficulties that they ended up with an article saying effectively "Consensys looks good, and we've heard good things from other people, but we totally failed to install it". That was one of the things that I found so refreshing with BSD/386, also round that time. Part of the issue with the System V variants was the incessant entry of activation keys for every tiny component, as well as the lack of overall documentation. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --bjuZg6miEcdLYP6q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl2lSpwACgkQIubykFB6QiPN5gCfSnM411lbrbqd2yikbjy2kzxi LNQAn0zEqcXydlmlQiszNjBWoccgUtYH =+jeu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bjuZg6miEcdLYP6q--