[GRLUG] A Moment of Silence

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 03:10:31PM -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
[snip]
> What systems do you have fond memories of?

I cut my UNIX teeth on a SCO UNIX SysV Release 4 box.  It was a dual-486
(25MHz) with 96MB of RAM.  (I now own the box; I'd run Linux on it just
because but the connector between the processors is a proprietary Compaq
thing, not the Intel SMP thing.)  In its heyday this system supported
about 50 or so concurrent users, all on old, green WYSE terminals.  It
had 2GB of storage.

My favorite memory of it happened shortly after I figured out how to
access the shell from the Informix 4GL database app.  I learned a new
command: uptime.  That day the uptime was 366 days.  That was back in
1995 when I was rebooting my Win95 desktop about four or five times a
day.  I was blown away that a computer could be up for over a year and
run just fine.

Two years later Topher talked me into trying Linux so I installed
Slackware on an old 486 box I had at home.  It's been *nix since.  :-)
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john-thomas
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