On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:37 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:
I started using Linux when Linux was minix... ;-)
I wrote a version of cron for minix, but, for reasons
I don't remember anymore, my cron got ignored, and
they used one written by Andrew T's graduate students.
My first store-bought version of linux was by a compilation
of Slackware sold by Yggdrisel.
My first version of Redhat linux got hacked by Polish
hackers.... It was on dialup at the time, I noticed the
hack because it suddenly slowed down as the modem went
wild... They downloaded a copy of a disk optimizing
utility, and installed it as root. I hung up, and learned
about firewalls.
Before minix, it was an assortment of DEC, Honeywell, Univac,
DG, HP, unix 4,5,6, and BSD... Oh, and CP/M, ISIS, DOS,
Windows, OS/2, Xenix, and QNX...
-Chuck Harris
?Amazing. Almost the same list of Unix OS versions for me, but I can add one, a summer job out of? high school (1983 for me) , to write a Terminfo entry for a color ascii/graphics mixed terminal for the ICL CLAN Unix multi-user server which was a UK-Japanese blended System V Unix on a terminal that had a color graphics cable screen, a keyboard -- with a key telephone PABX terminal -- and a printer connection (integrated together). I thought that was weird until I had the chance to port Unix OS to Data General MV/10000 (Yes, this was 1989) replacing its AOS/VS operating system.?
