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["Samual Acorn" <sam.acorn AT gmail.com>]

On 15/12/06, Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:43:01AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> > >I can tell from your post here, and Sindi's, that my timeline
> > >was off by a lot. :-\
> > >
> > >But keep in mind that I'm talking about Unix, not DOS/Windows
> > >etc. Working computers, not entertainment computers.
> >
> > My DOS computer was a work computer.  I had to learn to send files by
> > modem the day after the computer arrived, before there was email or
> > internet.  It was an art.
>
> _You_ may have been using it for work, but it was created
> by yuppies interested in making money by appealing to the
> mindless entertainment market. It didn't even include networking,
> originally. It was made to play games.

the commodore 64 -- made in 1982 -- was more of a gaming machine than
a 486 (hardware accelerated graphics and sound... much like a game
console) and it could be used for business and networking as well (AOL
started out on -- of all systems -- the commodore 64)

btw, DOS has supported networking as far back as the original 8088...
with a card made by intel itself (10 base 2 anyone?)

> At the same time, Unix was networking all over the world with
> uucp and the like.

on computers that noone could afford... if it were then the days of
the dial-in BBS would have never existed... this was before the 486
btw -- but it did last into the 486s lifetime and dial-ins still exist
today (www.usbbs.org) ... youre getting your years mixed up...

> Thanks for the info on compiling.
>
> Lee

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