-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2008-11-18 at 18:33 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
Lucky you!
I could only dream of that, because I had no internet, and no posibility of getting it, even though I did have a phone and modem. Fidonet was the only thing practicable, and a download that size would be prohibitive for me - if I remember correctly the dates.
LOL!
No, I was just being facetious.
I did have intraweb starting in the late '80s on my ccvax account at school. I also had 9600 dialup at home on Compuserve and then AOL. In '94 I started with a programming company who had a T1 connection. (I think they paid something like $1,200/month for it.)
wow, 1200! Compuserve... that was out of my reach, too. I got the PC magazine from the USA, which contained very interesting articles with assembler code printed in full, like the under 3Kb editor ted.com. You could get the source code via modem - which would mean a trans-atlantic phone call at a prohibitive cost for me, as a student, even if I had a modem. I had no idea how to get a compuserve account, (and when I did, I didn't have a credit card). So it meant typing the entire asm code... 3 KB of binary means many long pages of asm text. But I finally did it, and the enjoyment of getting an editor small enough for a 360 floppy typed all by myself was... I don't have words for that.
I honestly didn't try Linux - and not SuSE until I got ahold of some Red Hat 4 disks and then SuSE 5.0 a little while later.
I was very underwhelmed compared to OS/2 or Windows NT. :P
I got a one CD version of Red Hat on a magazine, and installed it - and I simply did not know what to do at the command prompt when I installed it. Then I saw another magazine with a two CD version of SuSE 5.3 (which I keep) - and I had read comparative that said that SuSE was the easiest - so SuSE it was. Yes, it had a "susehelp" script that was... very useful. Anyway, it was hard work. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkkak8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W0wwCfWI0rB9WnOXTIT5Vx6sKMN0Z2 +MEAnjRaleyVdyY9jVddc1JfyKW4GrV7 =EC/A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org