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[Joep L. Blom]

John Masters schreef:
> On 11 Sep 2008, at 19:36, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Here's my take.  (and OPINION only)  I think that the majority of  
>>>> Ubuntu
>>>> users are from the Windows world.  Ubuntu is pretty good for getting
>>>> n00bs on to linux.
>>    If your over 50 years old, 100% of you are old Windows and/or DOS
>> users. That was what was there before Linux. I enjoyed my old 1984  
>> 100%
>> Microsoft capable clone for many years with DOS on it. I recall in
>> College about 5% of the students bought DOS and the other 95% borrowed
>> from them. DOS was the original free operating system :-)
>>
>>    Since then they have spent big bucks making it hard to copy the
>> latest Windows.
>>
> 
> In actual fact Karl, Unix predates DOS by about 10 years.
> 
Unix was developed by Kernigan & Richie as they were fed-up with the
clumsy way RSTS handled things and the first copies date from 1978 (or 
1976 I forgot).
Joep

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