begin quoting Doug LaRue as of Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:01:16PM -0700: > ** Reply to message from SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 7 May 2008 16:36:55 > -0700 > > > > Well, this was back in 1994. No Linux around for me to use back then! > > > > Surely linux was around back then... > > IIRC, Linux posted his kernel in 1991 and the SFS already had a bunch of > GNU software but by 1994 there was so much noise you would need a > microscope to see Linux on any radar screen. IBM was spendinga about > $100 million on advertising OS/2 and Microsoft was probably spending > 3-4 times that on Chicago( over a year later called Windows 95 ). > > Linux and GNU were there alright, just too deep in the noise floor for > many to have a clue they where there.
And yet I think it was 1993 that I ran across it. Didn't see too buried to me, at least not among students on campus. And BSD too, which was slicker, but linux was cheaper. -- Of course, I was also an Amiga user. We're better than mainstream. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
