[vcf-midatlantic] our new museum -- micro exhibit -- pick 28!

Evan Koblentz evan at snarc.net
Fri Nov 6 13:44:40 EST 2015


> I meant the 'wars' between AT&T vs BSD Unix. I actually don't recall
> AT&T Unix on much more than the AT&T machines, Sun machines and a few
> dual universe machines. Interesting times. None of the Unix machines
> were really what I would call microcomputers until we reach the start
> of Linux and PC BSD (was that what it was called initially ?).
>
> Now that I think about it, Sun had AT&T Unix also so it was AT&T vs
> Sun vs BSD. The GNU software eased that bit since you could pop onto
> Archie/Veronica/Jughead/Comp.sources.* and grab to software to
> compile away.

A perfectly acceptable list discussion, but CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE if 
you're going to fork the debate.

The debate about which computers will be very important for us to refer 
back to, so let's not clog it with threadjacking.




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