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[Mark Haney]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
> 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
> 
> J
> 

True, but the core of the 'UNICS' operating system, dates to '69.  3 
years before I was born.


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