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I seem to recall emails to ale as early as 1993.  Anyone recall these t-shirts?



Geoffrey Myers

> On Feb 2, 2021, at 5:39 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2/2/21 4:56 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>> 
>> Linux is so much more than it used to be. I'm very glad Maddog gave
>> that alpha to Linus! Stood in a line to get that first AMD Opteron
>> cpu and mobo and had a working, mostly 64-bit install about 6 hours
>> later. To bad that box got hit by lightning 5 weeks later.
> 
> Well, the Opteron wasn't an Alpha, lest anyone be confused. Guess Jim was happy about 64-bit Unix code basically being a solved problem long before PC hardware was 64-bit.
> 
> First time I met Maddog (doubt he remembers) was after my boss's boss at Loral NASA-JSC told me to make time to go meet someone, whatever to took. Perhaps 5 people made it to the location. He handed out Linux + Alpha temporary tattoos.  My job provided lots of flexibility since I was on-call 24/7/360 (or so). Swore I'd never have an on-call job again, ever. There's only so many 2am-5am pages someone not in operations should get.
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