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[Karl Larsen]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> 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).
>>     
>
> I am confused. I thought it was correct that the first UNIX kernel was 
> developed back in late 1960.
> Ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
>   
    The point I think is we are not interested when the first Unix 
kernel was made. You and I could not afford that. The big deal was when 
a kid in college got a Unix system running in a computer using a 88386 
processor. This was the big deal and lead to Ubuntu.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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