In comp.os.linux.misc John Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In comp.os.linux.misc Jeroen Wenting <jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl> >> wrote: >>> Without Microsoft 90% of us would never have seen a computer more powerful >>> than a ZX-81 and 90% of the rest of us would never have used only dumb >>> mainframe terminals. >> >> Uh - when microsoft produced dos 1.0, or whatever it was, I was sitting >> at my Sun 360 workstation (with 4M of RAM, later upgraded to 8M), >> running SunOS 3.8 or thereabouts.
> Peter, if you are serious, and not just pulling our legs, your memory is > failing. Well, it might be a bit off. I am talking about 1986. > MS-DOS 1.0 came out in August 1981; SunOS 3.0 in February 1986. Seems about right. So what version of msdos was around at that time? Obviously I didn't use it! > Sun Microsystems was incorporated (with four employees) in February 1982. > There never was a SunOS 3.8. (SunOS 3.5 was succeeded by 4.0.) And I'm It seems to me that I was using 3.x. Maybe it was 3.1? I seem to remember an earlier major ... was there a 2.8 or 2.9? > not sure what you mean by "Sun 360"--a Sun 3/60, maybe? Seems likely. I recall it as a Sun 360m. "Monica" by name, following the cpu serial number, mncaxxx (or something close). "Sun 3" definitely rings a bell. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list