1994 doesn't seem to be that long ago to me either. That was the year of my first shell account (UofC as well).
My first taste of linux was painfull, though in fairness my computer at the time
was a 386 laptop. Just imagine how long a kernel compile took. I had to get a
two meg RAM upgrade to just boot (RAM was $100/meg for my machine in those
days).
Having said that I am still waiting for the day in which I actually feel like I
know what I am doing.
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Quoting Jason Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
1994 still seems recent to me, (I think my mind is trapped in the late 80s and early 90s.) As for the AT&T / Berkley SysV/BSD lawsuit I recall hearing quite a bit about it in my first year in University in 1995. I believe the UofC was particularly concerned with the issue and being in CPSC there were many people interested in the topic. But my mind memory is kind of fuzzy from that period,) with student life and the sleepless nights. I believe I got my first taste of linux then in one of my classes, the TA brought a RedHat book to class with RH5.x, (not too sure about the version,) and the TA indicated that our assignements which were done on the UofC AIX/UNIX systems could be done with RedHat. Since most people had Windows 95 or DOS at home we were impressed of the amount of tools and utilities that the system had. Comparing DOS to *NIX was like comparing a battery powered go-cart to a fully loaded car.
Trever Miller wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Sweet! > > >> Wow 1994 thats a long time ago, I wish i knew about unix >> type systems even half that time ago! > > >> Cool! > > >> Welcome!!!!! [Waves back] > > > Man, I must be feeling my age all of a sudden. Doesn't anybody > here remember the AT&T / Berkeley SysV/BSD lawsuit, or even > further back ((vaguely as a kid) the moon landings on tv?
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