On 01/20/2016 10:08 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Ah, yes, I do recall that. I was fortunate not to have owned a PC until Linux was nearing 0.91. I had Windows for about a week (I used it at work alot). I then loaded Linux on the machine. I still have the machine in front of me (AT&T 6386SX/EL WGS). My previous machine was a 3B1.
While I didn't own a PC, I built tons of them for other folks. I guess I was a Unix snob. Once Linux arrived I was still trying to figure out why folks wanted to use Windows. ;-)
Geeks of a feather! Same here. In fact I STILL can't figure it out. At least it looks to finally be on the wane. I've always followed (and helped to lead, whenever possible) whatever direction got me a fast, graphical UNIX desktop system...whatever that happened to be in any given era. I had a 3B1 on my desk for a long time, then moved to a MicroVAX-II running Ultrix (well, next to my desk, not on it ;)). Then a Sun, then (linearly) several more Suns, then a few SGIs, then suddenly Macs became (to my view) the best way to get a high-speed graphical UNIX desktop system, around the OS X 10.2 days, on a G4. That surprised me, actually. I ran that up until the point where Apple started trying to tell me what I did and did not need, and I moved to Linux on x86. That was maybe ~4 years ago. That move surprised me too, as I never really took Linux seriously. (I was always a commercial UNIX guy) Happily that coincided with the time the x86 chips (Core i7, specifically) started to become nearly as fast as a decade-old SPARC processor, so I was able to get work done on it. No Windows, anywhere. I also don't hit myself on the head with a hammer. Same logic. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA