On 2014-06-09 20:00, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I respectfully disagree about UNIX "just working". It was expensive in that you had to run it on expensive hardware. Most folks didn't run UNIX on x86 home-based systems, for example.
That was true. Long ago I got the first Spanish edition of the Tanenbaum "operating systems" book. The last part of the book had a printed copy of the Minix source code. I had no means of downloading it. I actually considered hand typing the two hundred pages or so. It was the closest thing I dreamt of trying some thing close to Unix.
Then came Linus, and the surly bonds to expensive/proprietary hardware was broken! I sill remember the joy and awe I felt when I first got Slackware running on a 80286-based system at home. "I can actually run UNIX without having a Sun Sparcstation on my desk!"
Same here. Actually, I installed Linux in order to learn Unix for use at the job, it was similar enough. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)