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[Karl Larsen]

John Masters wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
    Yes I know but the first try to make a Unix that would work with a 
386 CPU was done with what we call Linux early in the 1990's. Linux is 
quite well developed in 2008.


Karl
 

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