[ale] finding ubuntu mirrors

Fri May 18 20:34:31 EDT 2012

Jeff,

It does mention that IBM sourced cheaper parts in its pc whereas
Digital Equipment Corporation, wanting control over quality, chose to
make every component in its pc itself.

DEC and IBM both suffered from not seeing the next generation of
smaller computers. DEC created the idea that a computer could be
interactive and smaller than the huge IBM behemoths by provide instant
execution rather than running executing batch jobs, which is somewhat
embodied in the unix heritage - the first unix was programmed on dec
pdps, I believe. They couldn't foresee the next smaller generation of
computers.

On 5/18/12, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> Does the book talk about the fact that Digital's founders sent IBM away
> because they didn't want to sign the non-disclosure agreement during the
> build of the original IBM PC?   Bill Gates in a rare bit of honesty had
> actually told IBM he didn't have an OS so they should go to the Digital
> folks.   The Digital folks who weren't any bigger than Bill back then gave
> the IBM guys so much grief they went back to Bill begging for an OS.  He
> bought QDos (quick and dirty operating system) and sold it to IBM with
> non-exclusive rights - the entire MS empire was built from that and it was
> widely seen as a thinly veiled rip-off of CP/M at the time.
>
> Imagine how much better Digital might have done if they'd had the marketing
> abilities of M$.   Funny thing is although I have heard much about Dec over
> the years this is the first place I ever worked that had them and they were
> decommissioned very soon after I started ~7.5 years ago.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Justin
> Goldberg
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:25 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] finding ubuntu mirrors
>
> While reminiscing, anyone remember when gatekeeper.dec.com was mountable via
> NFS? I thought that was the coolest thing ever when I first learned about
> it. An internet filesystem! Woohoo!
>
> RIP Digital, Alpha. So much _quality_ technology. I recommend reading "the
> ultimate entrepreneur" for the story of DEC as told by the editors of
> ComputerWorld.
>
> On 5/17/12, Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just google +"filename.iso" "index of" site:edu, since universities
>> have the fattest pipes. It works great.
>>
>> Using this method, I found a directory that had the complete  source
>> tarball for sunos, aix, and at&t unix. I even found the source to
>> cisco ios (10 or 11) once waaaaaay back in the day. I remember it had
>> a lot of motorola m68k folders in the tree. I didn't have a cd burner
>> or a lot of storage so they were all deleted since they were of no use
>> to me at the time.
>>
>> On 5/17/12, Ron Frazier (ALE) <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>>> Ubuntu seems to be making it harder to find mirror sites,
>>> particularly for cd downloads, on their main download page. Their
>>> download robot sends me to a slow server in the uk. I found this link
>>> so I thought I'd share it.
>>>
>>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+cdmirrors
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
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