On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 15:58, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 05:53:58AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 02:08:31PM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote: > > > In my humble-but-correct opinion*, Linux and its > > > origins fit into the general topic of UNIX history.. > > > Warren gets final say, of course, but to encourage > > > him I will say: Ploooogie! > > > > I'm happy with it, you silly twisted boy, you. > > But +1 to Grant's point not to turn TUHS into a Linux support forum. > Quite frankly, I'm old dude who relies on his kids to fix his phone > and I can google and find answers to just about any Linux problem. > So no need for that here. > I think back to those mouldy oldie days, and my set of early things were... - First got exposed to BSD 4.1 with MFCF extensions ('86) - Couldn't afford *real* hardware, so I tracked whatever could run on Atari ST, and the biggest improvement I was able to get there was to be able to run Bash, early GCC, and sundry GNU tools, where I couldn't spawn multiple processes, but there was still plenty of useful - Then followed the MiNT period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT) where we accepted that MiNT is NOT TOS, but still lended a POSIX interface, only to be briefly overjoyed at the rename to "MiNT is NOW TOS" - First paid work on Unix ('93) involved SCO (where that was the debugging platform for some C code targeting VMS!); that was a platform where I was pretty overjoyed to discover I could run multiple terms on a single console. And found it odd when people thought this was a huge innovation of Linux... I'm not sure I have much that's extraordinarily interesting to say about MiNT, but I'd think that to be pretty on-topic for TUHS :-). -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"