From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 18:38:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC5iaNF1g6jG2=vLGhtY4==vrsn3nih2EDx6vxk9wnyJpfdrTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b7gk3rkhnthgh4gqstmg3gb@localhost>
Hello!
Actually Michael you're not alone in the problems regarding Trumpet
Windsock. I spent an exhaustive summer several years ago trying to get
it to work. And that was on my backup machine. I did get Win95 to
install onto Win3.11 without a problem. It only seems hard.
By time the string of events that I described above happened within
the Linux world, well that's where I am now.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 3:34 PM Michael Kjörling <michael@kjorling.se> wrote:
>
> On 11 Oct 2019 06:55 +1000, from wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey):
> > What was your "ahah" moment when you
> > first saw that Unix was special, especially compared to the systems you'd
> > previously used?
>
> My Unix moment wasn't anywhere near as distinct as some other
> peoples'. It was rather very much a gradual process.
>
> I got Internet access of my own as I recall some time in 1996. (I'd
> got a modem only a year or so earlier.) I definitely had Internet
> access and my own e-mail address in mid-1996.
>
> At that time, having had problems installing Windows 95 on top of
> 3.1x, I believe I was still running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on
> MS-DOS.
>
> Before I figured out how to get Trumpet Winsock to talk to my ISP (it
> probably would have gone more easily if not for the fact that due to
> still young age at the time and English not being my native language I
> was rather Englishtically challenged), that meant dial-up and log in
> to my ISP's Unix systems, which I mainly used to send and receive
> e-mail using Pine (which I _was_ able to figure out how to use).
>
> Looking back today at some of the e-mails from around that time, I'm
> guessing that system ran Solaris; the message-IDs from the oldest
> e-mails I still have clearly indicate "Pine.SOL.3.92" but a quick web
> search for what SOL meant to Pine turned out to be rather unhelpful.
>
> Also somewhere around that same time, someone first introduced me to
> Linux, but the two of us just weren't ready for each other at the
> time. I dipped my toes twice before taking the plunge to using Linux
> (then Red Hat 6.2) as my main desktop OS some time in mid-2000. Even
> then it took a while to get used to, but on the whole, here I am
> almost two decades later, not looking back... (though I do have to use
> Windows at work.)
>
> --
> Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se
> “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person
> is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-12 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-10 20:55 Warren Toomey
2019-10-10 21:11 ` SPC
2019-10-10 21:25 ` Jim Capp
2019-10-10 21:33 ` greg travis
2019-10-10 21:13 ` Michael Parson
2019-10-10 21:15 ` Matt Rudge
2019-10-10 21:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-10 21:34 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-10 23:10 ` Seth J. Morabito
2019-10-10 23:23 ` Brian L. Stuart
2019-10-10 23:28 ` George Michaelson
2019-10-10 23:35 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-10 23:49 ` David
2019-10-11 1:44 ` Gregg Levine
2019-10-11 1:45 ` Gregg Levine
2019-10-11 10:55 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-11 12:04 ` Tyler Adams
2019-10-13 19:46 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-10-14 2:13 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-10-14 2:32 ` Rico Pajarola
2019-10-14 9:49 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-14 18:36 ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-10-14 21:10 ` Jim Geist
2019-10-14 22:22 ` Warren Toomey
2019-10-14 22:56 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-14 23:44 ` Jim Geist
2019-10-14 23:47 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-14 23:54 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-15 0:03 ` Henry Bent
2019-10-14 23:54 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-10-15 0:04 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-15 0:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-10-15 0:27 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-15 0:07 ` George Michaelson
2019-10-15 0:10 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-15 0:27 ` [TUHS] Supercomputer UNIX (was Aga moments) Ronald Natalie
2019-10-15 0:33 ` [TUHS] Supercomputer UNIX (was Aha moments) Ronald Natalie
2019-10-14 23:52 ` [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment? Arthur Krewat
2019-10-11 12:53 ` KatolaZ
2019-10-11 16:44 ` Pete Wright
2019-10-11 17:13 ` Jim Geist
2019-10-11 17:20 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-11 17:40 ` Jim Capp
2019-10-11 17:48 ` Larry W. Cashdollar via TUHS
2019-10-11 21:56 ` Tomasz Rola
2019-10-12 2:41 ` ricercar
2019-10-12 3:01 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-12 14:37 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-12 16:12 ` David
2019-10-12 17:59 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-12 19:10 ` Jon Forrest
2019-10-13 21:45 ` Steve Johnson
2019-10-14 0:36 ` Jon Forrest
2019-10-14 2:08 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-10-16 13:29 ` Pierre DAVID
2019-10-12 3:23 ` Richard Salz
2019-10-12 3:34 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-12 21:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-12 8:55 ` Wesley Parish
2019-10-12 10:17 ` Naveen Nathan
2019-10-12 11:54 ` markus schnalke
2019-10-12 19:33 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-12 22:38 ` Gregg Levine [this message]
2019-10-13 1:37 ` Dan Cross
2019-10-13 15:00 ` Robert Brockway
2019-10-13 15:33 ` arnold
2019-10-13 15:41 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-13 15:47 ` David Potesta
2019-10-18 1:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-18 12:07 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-10-21 16:16 ` Dario Niedermann
2019-10-23 5:13 ` Gilles Gravier
2019-10-23 6:19 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-23 15:08 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-23 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-23 15:26 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-10-23 15:33 ` Dan Cross
2019-10-23 16:19 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-23 15:17 ` Richard Salz
2019-10-23 15:22 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-10-23 16:45 ` Will Senn
2019-10-23 22:19 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-24 17:32 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2019-10-26 0:33 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-25 20:58 ` John S Quarterman
2019-10-25 22:11 ` Will Senn
2019-10-26 0:57 ` William Corcoran
2019-10-12 4:42 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-12 6:12 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-12 10:05 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-12 12:49 ` Doug McIlroy
2019-10-12 14:26 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-12 13:55 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-12 14:51 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-10-13 1:57 Jon Steinhart
2019-10-13 3:45 Rudi Blom
2019-10-13 16:07 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-13 16:25 ` Richard Salz
2019-10-14 15:32 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-15 8:42 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-10-14 16:45 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-15 0:28 Pat Barron
2019-10-15 1:19 ` Andrew Warkentin
2019-10-15 4:06 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-16 14:39 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-20 19:25 Norman Wilson
2019-10-20 20:12 ` Sean Dwyer
2019-10-21 2:31 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-10-21 2:37 ` Warren Toomey
2019-10-22 5:25 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-10-22 6:29 ` Sean Dwyer
2019-10-21 2:40 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-21 2:45 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-21 10:45 ` jason-tuhs
2019-10-21 11:55 ` William Corcoran
2019-10-22 5:19 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-21 12:10 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-21 16:50 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-10-21 12:34 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-22 13:36 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-22 14:22 ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-22 20:08 ` Warren Toomey
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