<p dir="ltr">I have no idea what my FORTRAN punch cards ran on at GaTech in 1980. As a cheme major, I had no terminal access.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 11, 2014 5:57 PM, "Vernard Martin" <<a href="mailto:vernard@gmail.com">vernard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 2/11/2014 5:08 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
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I've read the JD bio from the announcement for the Thursday meeting and He says that got introduced to world of Linux in 1993 ...<br>
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What is your first encounter with Linux/Unix world?<br>
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first UNIX encounter was pre-Linux. Georgia Tech used AT&T 3B2s running Sys V for their CS 140 course which was Introduction to Programming using the PASCAL programming language. We used something called the "Freshman Shell" which gave us severely limited access to a /bin/ksh. After reading up on this, I started getting more interested in UNIX. My next UNIX was the VAX 11/780s running a variation of BSD. Then it was Vaxstation 2000s running Ultrixx I think.<br>
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When I bought my first computer, I didn't bother with anything other than DOS since I was looking for x86 versions of UNIX for it already. By the time the first "distribution" of Linux can out as a serious of floppy disc images that you downloaded, I jumped at the chance to use a UNIX as my default OS.<br>
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these days I use pretty much all OSes that I can get my hands on as I believe that you should have many tools in your tool belt and pick the best tool for the job at the time. But if left to my own devices, I would have a Linux desktop and be quite happy.<br>
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V<br>
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