-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> -={ Thursday, 28 April 2016, 21:45:27.191257881 +1000 }=-

 MK> Hey Tony!

 TL> I started working with Linux in late 1995.

 MK> I am thinking 1996-ish in my case.  Certainly no later than that.

 TL> We ended up going down the Linux route

 MK> Same thing here including the FreeBSD experimentation.

We didn't actually play with FreeBSD, except I did have a very brief play in
the mid - late 1990s, but that didn't amount to anything.  Without the benefits
of VMs, playing with alternate OSs wasn't as easy back then.

 MK> Speaking of experimentation;

 MK>   :read !gcc --version
 MK> gcc (GCC) 6.1.0
 MK> Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 MK> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
 MK> NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
 MK> PURPOSE.

 MK> It still has that new compiler smell.  :-)

Hahaha, nice.  I'm not running anything anywhere near that new. :)


... Your reasoning is excellent. It's your basic assumptions that are wrong.
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