<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 5:12 PM Giles Malet <<a href="mailto:gdmalet@gmail.com">gdmalet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2024-10-15 13:56, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> And that was over a decade before Linux got any<br>
> traction.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Almost a decade before Linux had its first line of source code. </div><div><br></div><div>I was first introduced to Unix 10 years after that video. SCO Unix mostly and a little HP-UX. I was enthralled with the response time and multiple terminal windows, remote terminals, etc. Compared to Windows 3.1 (un-networked) it was advanced. When Slackware was released I remember downloading floppy install disks and you could pick subsystems, like graphics. I was happy to have a free unix-like system that I didn't "borrow" from work. Then when I started a company I used my desktop PC as the server and a newer install of Slackware to provide email, web, FTP, fax, SLIP and PPP services. I had to hack multiple IP support into the kernel, patch NCSA web server for virtual hosts, and pore through the O'Reilly Sendmail book to write a complicated Sendmail config to support true muli-domain support. When I look back I'm surprised I accomplished that. I wasn't very experienced or very smart, I brute-forced it. It all ran on a 486 33MHz system that probably had an 80 MB hard disk and a couple MB of RAM.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
It was also the era of beards and the classic Casio watch! We all looked <br>
like that in those days. See for example 2m 5 seconds and at 10m 5 <br>
seconds into the video. I think the ladies made do with big glasses.<br></blockquote><div><br>I noticed the 1980's styles too and it brought back teenage memories of that era. </div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>John Van Ostrand<br></div><div>At large on sabbatical<br></div><br></div></div></div>