From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:56:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Why Linux not another PC/UNIX [was Mach for i386 ...] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Clem Cole wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > >> I started screwing around with Linux in the late 90s, and it would be many >> years before any sort of real Unix (of the AT&T variety), in any form, was >> readily available to me - that being Solaris when Sun started offering it >> for free download. > > > See my comment to Dan. I fear you may not have known where to look, or whom > to ask.​ As I asked Dan, were you not at an university at time? Or where > you running a Sun or the like -- i.e. working with real UNIX but working > for someone with binary license, not sources from AT&T (and UCB)? No, and no. I was in high school, actually, and I only attended college - a local 2-year school - for one semester before dropping out because I couldn't handle it. -uso.