Re: Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Kurt Weiske to Chicken Head on Sun Aug 04 2019 10:04 am

 > -=> Chicken Head wrote to Eric Renfro <=-
 >
 >  CH> I've been using Linux "daily" since about...oh,
1992.  Using Kernel
 >  CH> version 0.98pl5 I think, booted up off of the old SLS distro.
 >
 > That was about the time that I started, my team had a 386/33 with 4 mb of
 > RAM, recompiling the kernel to support an Intel Etherexpress/16 card took a
 > day and a half!
 >
 > I started using BSD/OS on a mail server and later a DHCP/DNS server and
 > didn't touch Linux again until 2000. It had come a long way in a short time.
 >
 >
 >
 > ... Have you ever seen anything like this place?

Hah, I started using an original 386-40 from AMD.  I added the 387 math
co-processor specifically because xlock's screen blankers ran slow...and it
was worth it!

I remember the first WINE release in 1994 as well..it ran calc.exe.  That
was about it.  Wine has come a long way as well.

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