<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I seem to recall emails to ale as early as 1993. Anyone recall these t-shirts?<div><img src="cid:68CF6461-6F2E-4243-AEFA-6B884668257D-L0-001"><br></div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Geoffrey Myers</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 2, 2021, at 5:39 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On 2/2/21 4:56 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Linux is so much more than it used to be. I'm very glad Maddog gave</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that alpha to Linus! Stood in a line to get that first AMD Opteron</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>cpu and mobo and had a working, mostly 64-bit install about 6 hours</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>later. To bad that box got hit by lightning 5 weeks later.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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.</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Ale mailing list</span><br><span>Ale@ale.org</span><br><span>https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</span><br><span>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</span><br><span>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>