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Article #621396Re: Old word processors
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:58
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:58
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> writes: > On 28 Mar 2018 03:17:00 GMT > t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote: > >> and also 386BSD stalled for a while as the author had in mind more >> of a teaching tool than a supported, stable system and things didn't >> take off for FreeBSD & NetBSD until it was forked. > > Yes, I discovered the BSDs shortly after the fork (1993) after > trying Linux (bought on floppies) and finding it OK but not good enough for > what I wanted. It was confusing 386BSD, BSD386, NetBSD, FreeBSD were all > talked about with some people managing to mix up the first two (one was > commercial for the 386) - I wound up asking on USENET and getting a good > answer (even if it did claim that Linux was a toy). I got my first intro to Unix in '89, realized immediately that this was where I wanted to go. But there appeard to be a mare's nest of legal and technical penc around the whole BSD shebang. I had remote access to Unix so I kept putting it off. Didn't want to have to figure out all the gnarly details of the conflict. In '99 my Unix access threatened to go away so I bought a used Intel 486 machine and moved to Linux. Haven't looked back since. (Well, except that my very first shot was Caldera Linux from a CD in a Great Fat Book. That lasted only long enough to figure out how to get and install Slackware.) -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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