[kwlug-disc] UNIX in 1982

[John Van Ostrand]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 5:12 PM Giles Malet <gdmalet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2024-10-15 13:56, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > And that was over a decade before Linux got any
> > traction.
>

Almost a decade before Linux had its first line of source code.

I was first introduced to Unix 10 years after that video. SCO Unix mostly
and a little HP-UX. I was enthralled with the response time and multiple
terminal windows, remote terminals, etc. Compared to Windows 3.1
(un-networked) it was advanced. When Slackware was released I remember
downloading floppy install disks and you could pick subsystems, like
graphics.  I was happy to have a free unix-like system that I didn't
"borrow" from work. Then when I started a company I used my desktop PC as
the server and a newer install of Slackware to provide email, web, FTP,
fax, SLIP and PPP services. I had to hack multiple IP support into the
kernel, patch NCSA web server for virtual hosts, and pore through the
O'Reilly Sendmail book to write a complicated Sendmail config to support
true muli-domain support. When I look back I'm surprised I accomplished
that. I wasn't very experienced or very smart, I brute-forced it. It all
ran on a 486 33MHz system that probably had an 80 MB hard disk and a couple
MB of RAM.

It was also the era of beards and the classic Casio watch! We all looked
> like that in those days. See for example 2m 5 seconds and at 10m 5
> seconds into the video. I think the ladies made do with big glasses.
>

I noticed the 1980's styles too and it brought back teenage memories of
that era.

-- 
John Van Ostrand
At large on sabbatical
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