On Tuesday 05 Apr 2011, CPK Smithies wrote: > Greetings all. I am a prospective new member of the Dorset LUG. This is > to introduce myself.
Greetings and Welcome. > My introduction to Unix was in the early 1980s, when I put together a > couple of device drivers for SCO. In those days I was working for a > computer manufacturer that had developed a sort-of clone of the IBM PC, > and got SCO running without difficulty. I still have a vivid memory of > talking to SCO tech support from a 'phone box somewhere on the > Southampton University campus, chiding them about their handling of > interrupts. That was when SCO were a 'proper' Unix company, unlike the disaster that remains today. I used SCO on a PC that we used to run a diagnostic development tool in the early 90s and I have to say it was a breath of fresh air compared to Windows 3.0. Are you aware that there is a LUG meeting tonight at the Broadway in Bournemouth? See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub for details. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
