From: madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com (Michael Kerpan)
Subject: [TUHS] Why Linux not another PC/UNIX [was Mach for i386 ...]
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:00:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHfSdrX-Sr3C60+c+jdGJjEEVnkpPTagxuJQe3T2T9Ndsm8oBQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2M=ucsTTXx7P8c+P7vd17fDAmEhgR9Qy_q-DHtjVoXxVA@mail.gmail.com>
Personal anecdote time. I'm probably a bit younger than most of the folks
here and my first exposure to computers came when my father bought a shiny
new Northgate 486 in 1990. He'd been talking about getting a computer for a
few years and had been researching getting some sort of Unix, but even it
was all too expensive even for someone who could buy a 486 in 1990. By the
time I got interested in Unix-y systems (partly by reading a copy of _Life
With Unix_ that my dad had bought back before we go our first computer),
Linux was the cheapest game in town: free on CDs from the back of books in
the public library.
Mike
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2017-02-22 3:38 Clem Cole
2017-02-22 4:28 ` Dan Cross
2017-02-22 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 16:11 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 17:00 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 17:06 ` Chet Ramey
2017-02-22 18:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 19:35 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 20:18 ` arnold
2017-02-22 22:11 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 21:34 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 22:56 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 23:13 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 23:51 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 23:51 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-02-23 19:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-23 20:31 ` Random832
2017-02-23 22:48 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-24 2:07 ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-23 23:06 ` Wesley Parish
2017-02-22 17:41 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-22 21:00 ` Michael Kerpan [this message]
2017-02-22 22:03 ` Arno Griffioen
2017-02-22 22:51 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 23:29 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-23 4:53 ` Gregg Levine
2017-02-22 22:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-24 3:53 ` Dan Cross
2017-02-22 5:56 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-24 5:31 ` John Labovitz
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