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Re: thirty years ago

From Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: thirty years ago
Date 2021-08-26 12:14 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:47:33 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>
> On 8/25/21 12:10, John McCue wrote:
>> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>>> First Linux announcement, 25 August 1991.
>> <snip>
>>>    Hello everybody out there using minix -
>>>
>>>    I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
>>>    professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.  This has been brewing
>> <snip>
>>>    It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
>>>    will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
>> Funny, remember the old days when one of the common
>> questions was "What machine is Linus using ?".
>> Then some people would try and get the same hardware :)
>> <snip>
>> 30 years, who would have thought!
>> 
>
> 	Oh I was 54 when Linus announced and I assure you it has been
> 30 years.  It took me 15 years and the collapse of CBM  to get into
> using GNU/Linux.

CBM as in Commodore Business Machines?

Can't remember what I was doing that day in 1991. I was 30 years younger
though. ;-) Took until four years later I had my first "IBM compatible"
and another three years after that to install my first Linux. Switched
completely to Linux in 2000 (and lost many "friends", telling them I will
no longer help them with Windows, so they never contacted me after that,
realizing I was just good enough for fixing their virus infested machines
before) and never looked back.
-- 
Andreas

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thirty years ago Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-25 17:44 +0000
  Re: thirty years ago John McCue <jmccue@jmcw541.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> - 2021-08-25 19:10 +0000
    Re: thirty years ago Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-08-25 16:47 -0700
      Re: thirty years ago The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-26 09:51 +0100
      Re: thirty years ago Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-26 12:14 -0400
  Re: thirty years ago doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2021-08-25 22:25 +0000
  Re: thirty years ago SixOverFive <hae274b.net> - 2021-08-26 00:12 -0400
    Re: thirty years ago The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-26 10:02 +0100
      Linux on a Chromebook (was: thirty years ago) Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-26 12:21 -0400
        Re: Linux on a Chromebook (was: thirty years ago) Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2021-08-26 18:27 +0200
          Re: Linux on a Chromebook The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-26 17:49 +0100
          Re: Linux on a Chromebook Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-26 12:50 -0400
            Re: Linux on a Chromebook Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2021-08-26 19:35 +0200
              Re: Linux on a Chromebook Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-26 14:07 -0400
                Re: Linux on a Chromebook Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-26 18:17 +0000
                Re: Linux on a Chromebook Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2021-08-26 22:36 +0200
                Re: Linux on a Chromebook The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-27 02:06 +0100
        Re: Linux on a Chromebook The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-26 17:48 +0100
        Re: Linux on a Chromebook (was: thirty years ago) Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-26 17:19 +0000
          Re: Linux on a Chromebook (was: thirty years ago) Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2021-08-26 19:45 +0200
          Re: Linux on a Chromebook The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-26 20:20 +0100
        Re: Linux on a Chromebook SixOverFive <hae274b.net> - 2021-08-26 21:38 -0400
          Re: Linux on a Chromebook The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-27 03:34 +0100
            Re: Linux on a Chromebook Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-27 13:32 +0000
            Re: Linux on a Chromebook Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-27 13:30 -0400
              Re: Linux on a Chromebook The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-28 09:34 +0100
                Re: Linux on a Chromebook Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-28 12:42 -0400
                Re: Linux on a Chromebook The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-28 20:18 +0100
          Re: Linux on a Chromebook Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-08-26 21:06 -0700
      Re: thirty years ago SixOverFive <hae274b.net> - 2021-08-26 21:26 -0400
        Re: thirty years ago The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-27 02:49 +0100
  Re: thirty years ago "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-30 08:29 +0300
  Re: thirty years ago Solbu <solbu@solbu.net> - 2021-09-04 17:10 +0200
  Re: thirty years ago "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-19 17:34 +0300
    Re: thirty years ago "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-20 08:23 +0300

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