The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops
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  • @Magister
    8•10 months ago

    Yep, there was not a lot of Un*x desktop in the 90s, mainly SCO, SVR4, BSD, SunOS1/SunOS2/Solaris.

    It was the great time of mainframe, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Silicon graphics IRIX, and we had dozens of TX (X Terminal, a thin client running local X). I was a sysadmin on those dinosaurs, it was a good times. Installing HPUX8 with magnetic tapes, what a time… you know that the tar command means tape archiver, right?

    And before that it was 8" floppy disk we used on older system like GCOS6 / DPS6 / Mini6, google it, it as fun :) the one I used was exactly as the one on this picture http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/gcos6/gcos6.htm

  • Dariusmiles2123
    3•10 months ago

    Interesting article which makes me wanna learn more about the history of home computers even if I don’t understand all the terminology.

    I feel so happy to have found a home which is not Windows anymore and not having to compromise too much.