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[John Masters]

On 11 Sep 2008, at 20:30, Karl Larsen wrote:

> 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.
>
Have I joined the surrealists mailing list by mistake?

-- 
John (confused)