40 Years of Unix

Part of the old timer Computing SHOULD at least in part, contain BOFH ;) I think most people here have read some of them, and if you haven't... DO IT!

Also, I finally, after a LONG time, started a new story up...

http://antionline.com/showthread.php?p=951336

It's not finished, because I'm basically taking a part of one of my stories I did after I was writing BAfM, and had started BHfM, and this is a continuation of that. But I wanted to change a few things that seemed like better ideas, so I did ;)

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Originally Posted by fourdc

I found AO from a magazine that was about where the gurus go to get their solutions.

My first "internet" was a Commo 64, 300 baud and Delphi using Tymnet to avoid the long distance charges. I remember using Kermit for the file transfers.

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Tymnet,sprintnet and another network compuserve. Tymnet was my gateway to the internet. It allowed you to access modem pools and other packet-switching customers. Logging into a university computer through gopher and gaining root access because gopher server crashed. I didn't know about unix but I did know about telnet and that allowed to me to surf the internet undetected. Wasn't no such thing as google back then so you trade internet address and modem pool addresses with other underground people.

did any one else catch the mistake on page 12 about Torvald they say his name is Linux Torvald instead of Linus Torvald.

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Originally Posted by Riot

did any one else catch the mistake on page 12 about Torvald they say his name is Linux Torvald instead of Linus Torvald.

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You know...Linux brand would have made a bigger impact over the years if people actually communicated instead of suing each other.

Anybody remember Minux? It was the first cloned unix muli-tasking op that ran on 80286 machines and taught in some colleges.

We may get a second shot to destroying Microsoft. Google wants to play with Minux.

Watch your steps...linux!

http://www.minix3.org/

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MINIX 3 is initially targeted at the following areas:

* Applications where very high reliability is required
* Single-chip, small-RAM, low-power, $100 laptops for Third-World children
* Embedded systems (e.g., cameras, DVD recorders, cell phones)
* Applications where the GPL is too restrictive (MINIX 3 uses a BSD-type license)
* Education (e.g., operating systems courses at universities)

Google Summer of Code
Google has created a project in which students work on open source projects during the summer and are paid for it by Google. One of the approved projects is MINIX 3. If you are a student and would like to hack on MINIX 3 and be paid for it, please check out our ideas page.

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Linus was one of the Minix users in the early days, he wasn't happy with it, and used it to make Linux.

Minix wasn't the first though; Xenix ran on PCs too but it wasn't a clone. And 386/BSD also ran on PCs, but again, neither are clones. They're actual Unix.

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Originally Posted by gore

Minix wasn't the first though; Xenix ran on PCs too but it wasn't a clone. And 386/BSD also ran on PCs, but again, neither are clones. They're actual Unix.

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Yeah and Microsoft also stole 'DOS'. They were even gullible enough to sell windows 95 and 98 which is dos with a windows system. After NT 4.0, microsoft lost their minds. Apple achieved what Microsoft visioned ages ago - modernize unix. Deep pockets pissing on each other.

This is why open-source is good. Ever notice with every new version of Winblows, old viruses come back to life? Microsoft is interested in profits more than bug tracking and prevention.

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Originally Posted by Linen0ise

Yeah and Microsoft also stole 'DOS'.

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Yea, Q-DOS from Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products. It meant Quick and Dirty Operating System, and they changed it to Disk Operating System and tried to make it sound like DOS of the 1960s. They paid 50,000 dollars for it and brought it back to IBM and made millions.

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They were even gullible enough to sell windows 95 and 98 which is dos with a windows system.

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It's more or less a more GUI looking "DOS Shell" which you can find a picture of on Wiki I think. I have PC-DOS here on floppy which comes with it. They just put a non text UI on top of it.

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Apple achieved what Microsoft visioned ages ago - modernize unix. Deep pockets pissing on each other.

This is why open-source is good. Ever notice with every new version of Winblows, old viruses come back to life? Microsoft is interested in profits more than bug tracking and prevention.

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Apple did something no one has done better; They made Unix for the average user easy to use and really pretty. It's kind of neat because even at the college I was at people thought Unix was all CLI and the only GUI stuff was crap like TWM or worse, so most people rarely realize that OS X has a Unix base to it with a PDF Window System.