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> Strangely enough, I did learn Unix by reading all the man pages. Ditto. > My first introduction to a Unix was via 'Coherent', a v7 clone back in the early 1

> Strangely enough, I did learn Unix by reading all the man pages. Ditto. > My first introduction to a Unix was via 'Coherent', a v7 clone back in the early 1990s. At or near the same time as your introduction was mine with Consensys SVR4 for i386[0]. IIRC, Consensys sold stat-mux cards for PC's at the time, hence their Unix SVR4 product. It was reasonably priced along with being a pretty vanilla AT&T distribution. Good times :-) 0 - https://github.com/Mellvik/Consensys-SVR4 https://github.com/Mellvik/Consensys-SVR4

whartung 3y ago
> Ditto Double ditto. When I started (Sun 1 era), it was all we had. No internet. No USENET. No BBSes. No real magazines. Dr Dobbs and Byte. Also, no one to talk to. The little group I was in was the “cutting edge”. So we had to make it all up. We were normally a VAX shop, rest of the company was running off the CDC mainframe. We were also just getting early PCs. “man -k” was your friend. We pretty much also never had any training. Biggest regret was I think they sent the wrong guy to learn the Lisp machines (TI Explorers). Very hard to pick up, and the engineer they sent simply didn’t have the CS background or inner geek drive to really exploit their potential. They basically taught him some high level, entry level expert system (likely CLIPS or OPS5 based) and that was it. So they pretty much sat idle while we hammered on the Suns. Too bad.
- simonblack 3y ago
  No real magazines. Dr Dobbs and Byte. Those were the real magazines. <grin>
simonblack 3y ago
Consensys! Thank you. Yep. That was it. I went nuts the other day trying to remember the name of the first 'Real UNIX' I was using about 12-18 months after I started with Coherent. After Consensys, I used Novell's Unixware, Sun's SunOS (Solaris 1), then Solaris 2, and finally Linux.

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> Strangely enough, I did learn Unix by reading all the man pages. Ditto. > My first introduction to a Unix was via 'Coherent', a v7 clone back in the early 1

by AdieuToLogic 3y ago

whartung 3y ago
> Ditto Double ditto. When I started (Sun 1 era), it was all we had. No internet. No USENET. No BBSes. No real magazines. Dr Dobbs and Byte. Also, no one to talk to. The little group I was in was the “cutting edge”. So we had to make it all up. We were normally a VAX shop, rest of the company was running off the CDC mainframe. We were also just getting early PCs. “man -k” was your friend. We pretty much also never had any training. Biggest regret was I think they sent the wrong guy to learn the Lisp machines (TI Explorers). Very hard to pick up, and the engineer they sent simply didn’t have the CS background or inner geek drive to really exploit their potential. They basically taught him some high level, entry level expert system (likely CLIPS or OPS5 based) and that was it. So they pretty much sat idle while we hammered on the Suns. Too bad.
- simonblack 3y ago
  No real magazines. Dr Dobbs and Byte. Those were the real magazines. <grin>
simonblack 3y ago
Consensys! Thank you. Yep. That was it. I went nuts the other day trying to remember the name of the first 'Real UNIX' I was using about 12-18 months after I started with Coherent. After Consensys, I used Novell's Unixware, Sun's SunOS (Solaris 1), then Solaris 2, and finally Linux.