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Er, yes....? I confess I'm surprised this is regarded as enough of a revelation to reach the front page. A relatively popular piece of hardware had an uncommon
by eftpotrm 16y ago
Er, yes....?
I confess I'm surprised this is regarded as enough of a revelation to reach the front page. A relatively popular piece of hardware had an uncommon but far from unheard of variation. It's a few years before my time in the scene but I suspect it would have been advertised at least occasionally...
Let's see, other bits of tech trivia:
* Amiga ports of Linux and NetBSD also existed (somewhat later) and had reasonable market traction. BSD's Matt Dillon produced an Amiga C compiler called 'DICE'.
* Microsoft had a version of Unix called Xenix which they ran internally for many years (apparently into the early 90s). Can't find it just now but I've heard before that early versions of Windows may have been developed on Xenix machines and cross-compiled.
* Linus Torvalds' learnt computer programming on the rather obscure Sinclair QL.
* Tux wasn't really chosen as the 'Linux logo'. There was a competition to mark the release of 2.0 and it didn't win, but Linus mentioned he liked Penguins and Tux got taken up in place of the rather dull chosen entries.
Go on people, see what else you can come up with :-)
- scrame 16y agoI remember DICE! That was my first C compiler. I had to spend a summer mowing lawns as a teenager to get the Rom Kernel Reference Manuals. I remember getting an updated version of DICE that supported dynamically linked libraries and just trying to get my head around the concept. Computing was so much simpler then.
- jff 16y agoXenix was not just internal, they also sold it.
- eftpotrm 16y agoSorry, yes, I didn't mean to imply that. It became SCO Unix in the end.