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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,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 d92dc564 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2A9049BD1E; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:09:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BB49BCC9; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:09:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 641C99BCC9; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:09:01 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 506 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:08:58 AEST Received: from frieza.hoshinet.org (ks3374089.kimsufi.com [37.187.103.66]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E3919BC99 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:08:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: by frieza.hoshinet.org (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 3FB071C8C79B; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:00:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by frieza.hoshinet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B3D1C8C798; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:00:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:00:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Nickolas X-X-Sender: nicci@frieza.hoshinet.org To: Charles H Sauer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <13c5c36e-c84d-e020-d09e-51c8c502dc6d@kilonet.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (BSF 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [TUHS] If not Linux, then what? 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@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Charles H Sauer wrote: > possible components of answer regarding animation/CGI: > o SGI/MIPS/IRIX would have fared better/longer > o Jobs would have pushed Pixar towards Mach > o P4+NVIDIA would still have been disruptive > (https://secure2.linuxjournal.com/ljarchive/LJ/099/6011s1.html) > o Gates would have done more > > Windows had usable TCP/IP, at least starting with Windows 3, from Trumpet, > Chameleon and others. I found/find the Microsoft 32 bit implementation > preferable running Mosaic and Netscape, but had to do some work with 16 bit > Trumpet a few years ago for a client that needed me to make some things work > in DOS outside of Win 3.1. I actually wrote an IRC client for plain DOS a few years ago - I used WatTCP. -uso.