[ale] non-technical Linux question

[Jim Kinney]

I have no idea what my FORTRAN punch cards ran on at GaTech in 1980. As a
cheme major, I had no terminal access.
On Feb 11, 2014 5:57 PM, "Vernard Martin" <vernard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/11/2014 5:08 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>
>> 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 ...
>>
>> What is your first encounter with Linux/Unix world?
>>
> 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.
>
>  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.
>
> 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.
>
> V
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