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That’s how I started out running Linux! Downloading a bunch of floppies from a BBS over a 16.8k USR HST modem. It was like a magical world when I first installe
by pridkett 5y ago
That’s how I started out running Linux! Downloading a bunch of floppies from a BBS over a 16.8k USR HST modem. It was like a magical world when I first installed it. I also had a giant paper book that explained how to use it. For some reason the vi instructions in the book baffled me, but emacs seemed normal.
Six months later I finally got the disks for X11. My mind was blown. Real multitasking - not like DESQView or OS/2.
- rconti 5y agoEven though I was installing from HDD (dual boot, as I recall), I had to download disksets at 14.4kbps. I remember setting a kitchen timer for 14 minutes for each ZModem xfer.
- dopeboy 5y agoThe paper book you had reminds me of the very thick stack of printed papers that is the Gentoo installation guide circa 2005. It was my first foray into Linux and I, for macho reasons, went with Gentoo. I think I gave up after a day, tried Fedora, and settled on Ubuntu.
- timbit42 5y agoWhat wasn't real about OS/2 multitasking? It was pre-emptive, at least on a 386.
- supernovae 5y agoos/2 was preemptive but had that single message queue so some people shrug it off - pretty common issue with computers prior to multi core systems. i ran a bbs on os2 and it was awesome. IBM sponsored my bbs as teamos2 and mustang software sent me wildcat! and i was the first bbs in houston to offer linux for download