Re: Linux, networking, etc.
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sun Jul 20 2025 10:27:28
> My timeline is probably off from yours because you were encountering it
> professionally while my encounters were all not at work, so everyone I knew
> who knew of linux was a hobbiest. The places I was working 1994-98 were
> either still running something on top of DOS and Netware (like Wordperfect
> Office, a Baby-36 emulator, or a Kermit terminal to access a "bigger
> machine"), were running OS/2 (one client), and a few were either running
> Windows 3.1 or
> WfWG 3.11 (the latter for networking).
This takes me back. I first started using Unix in about 1989 when I stared out w
ith SCO Unix. At my first couple of jobs I encountered other *nix such as Xenix,
Dynix, AIX, and a few others. I first discovered Linux when I picked up a .net
magazine (It was a British mag for internet stuff) and it included a copy of Sla
ckware 1.2.13. I accidentally blew away my WfW3.11 setup since I had no idea abo
ut duel bootings and the like at the time and Remember I was stuch with a "LI" s
omething or other at the top. Another ago and LILO eventually ran and booted up,
slowly, on my 486dx66 with 4mb ram. I eventually updated the system to a 486DX4
-120 which I sent to the US before my immigration to be used for an IRC server i
n Toledo.
Anyway, I friend got me to try NetBSD and I used that for a while but I always h
ad problems updating and getting library problems. I picked up a copy of Mandrak
e (to be Mandriva) at a local Half Price Books. I used that for a long time, but
got tired of packages being out of date. I swithed to CentOS and got along well
until they decided to go continuous release. I fiddled around with various rele
ases until setting on Ubuntu which I was already using for my BBS machine by now
anyway, eventually converting everything else over.
I did play with Yellowdog on a Mac G4 at work for a while, and also had the misf
ortune to come across zOS. I was sent on a 4 day course because the company migh
t want to use it. They didn't. They were Nortel and went belly up.
Interesting thing about Linux was that it had SCO Compatability. It would run Mi
croFocus Cobol and would run our product. I have no idea if it can still do that
.
A nice walk down memory lane. I think this is pretty much documented elsewhere,
maybe I should just create a webpage and point to it eveytime this sort of thing
comes up.
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