Happy 30th birthday linux!!
It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing." This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a success! Stay safe and I hope to see you at the next meeting! Later, Tim.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/-PWutfOCMUI On 8/25/21 7:19 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing."
Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing." Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the years. With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much killed it off now. Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a Tim> success! Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin*
"John" == John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing." John> Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the John> years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, John> SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an John> emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. John> Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), John> Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the John> years. Heh, I forgot Umax, from Encore Computing. 16xNS32000 CPUs, 64Mb of RAM, $250k wheeled in, $25k when we wheeled it out three years later. John> With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my John> work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the John> longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much John> killed it off now. Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a Tim> success! John> Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin* John> _______________________________________________ John> WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org John> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org John> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ John> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ John> Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/GC4JKD...
Encore (Marlboro MA, pioneer of parallel cpus) was amazing (or amazingly foolish) because....roughly 100 employees cranked out this product/HW with not just ONE os: They had 3 flavors, all running on the same large (VAX-sized) Multimax hardware with heavy SCSI disks each a few hundred MB. OS #1: BSD OS #2: sysV OS #3: UMAX, a mach hybrid if that helps I got hired into a 3 person sysadmin team, 2 weeks later I learned my lead cohort was moving to FL leaving me as the new top puppy. But I was surrounded by UNIX literate developers, thrilled to learn from them! But mostly only colleges bought these systems, so the downsizing started soon after. -doug On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 3:48 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
"John" == John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing."
John> Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the John> years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, John> SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an John> emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. John> Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), John> Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the John> years.
Heh, I forgot Umax, from Encore Computing. 16xNS32000 CPUs, 64Mb of RAM, $250k wheeled in, $25k when we wheeled it out three years later.
John> With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my John> work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the John> longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much John> killed it off now.
Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a Tim> success!
John> Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin* John> _______________________________________________ John> WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org John> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org John> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ John> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ John> Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/GC4JKD... _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/7QRWOL...
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:46 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing."
Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the years.
With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much killed it off now.
We tried to keep sparc alive a little longer at least by releasing Oracle Linux on sparc as recently as 2017. Now that arm is the new hotness that's where the "alt" releases are.
Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a Tim> success!
Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin* _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/GC4JKD...
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