How the Linux-vs-BSD culture clash looked in the 1980s/1990s
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How the Linux-vs-BSD culture clash looked in the 1980s/1990s
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/97149.html
(Fairly rare tech blog post, from me.)
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How the Linux-vs-BSD culture clash looked in the 1980s/1990s
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/97149.html
(Fairly rare tech blog post, from me.)
@lproven Oh yes, I couldn't remember the name of that Mark Williams Corporation product - Coherent. I really wanted to explore its potential, but my boss wouldn't spring the £99* for it, saying I could have a login on the Sequent running Dynix/ptx instead. But I thought that "unix" on commodity hardware for general purpose use, as you note, had a future.
* - I'm sure it was available in the UK at the time, at the usual £-$ equivalence -
@lproven Oh yes, I couldn't remember the name of that Mark Williams Corporation product - Coherent. I really wanted to explore its potential, but my boss wouldn't spring the £99* for it, saying I could have a login on the Sequent running Dynix/ptx instead. But I thought that "unix" on commodity hardware for general purpose use, as you note, had a future.
* - I'm sure it was available in the UK at the time, at the usual £-$ equivalence@withaveeay I have fond memories of Coherent, which made me grok Unix.
I got it in Italy by mail order and installed it on a 386 laptop with 2 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard disk, half for Coherent and the rest for DR-DOS which shipped with the machine. Coherent was fantastic, for fun I even used my Amiga 500 as a serial terminal connected to the laptop via RS-232.
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@withaveeay I have fond memories of Coherent, which made me grok Unix.
I got it in Italy by mail order and installed it on a 386 laptop with 2 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard disk, half for Coherent and the rest for DR-DOS which shipped with the machine. Coherent was fantastic, for fun I even used my Amiga 500 as a serial terminal connected to the laptop via RS-232.
@amoroso @withaveeay Nice!
I only got to do this sort of thing at work. I did have UUCP delivering emails (from me to me, of course) over RS232 between my own Xenix 286 machine and the big Xenix 386 machine we used for customer demo purposes. That was as close as I got.
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@withaveeay I have fond memories of Coherent, which made me grok Unix.
I got it in Italy by mail order and installed it on a 386 laptop with 2 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard disk, half for Coherent and the rest for DR-DOS which shipped with the machine. Coherent was fantastic, for fun I even used my Amiga 500 as a serial terminal connected to the laptop via RS-232.
@amoroso @withaveeay The slightly sad thing is that I believe only the final 386 version of Coherent was made FOSS. I am not sure if the earlier 8086 and 80286 versions survived at all.
The 286 one was apparently very capable and did even more than Xenix within the tiny 64 kB process size limit the processor imposed.
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@amoroso @withaveeay Nice!
I only got to do this sort of thing at work. I did have UUCP delivering emails (from me to me, of course) over RS232 between my own Xenix 286 machine and the big Xenix 386 machine we used for customer demo purposes. That was as close as I got.
@lproven With that Coherent setup I also used UUCP over dial-up to send email via an Italian provider connected to an Internet gateway at Rutgers University. My paid plan carried Usenet too but I never used it.
I was living in the future. I recall a Computer Science professor at the university I was a student at impressed by a mail I sent him.
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@amoroso @withaveeay The slightly sad thing is that I believe only the final 386 version of Coherent was made FOSS. I am not sure if the earlier 8086 and 80286 versions survived at all.
The 286 one was apparently very capable and did even more than Xenix within the tiny 64 kB process size limit the processor imposed.
@lproven Maybe Stephen Ness knows more. He worked at MWC also on Coherent, for example the excellent manual. I exchanged a few mails with him.
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@amoroso @withaveeay The slightly sad thing is that I believe only the final 386 version of Coherent was made FOSS. I am not sure if the earlier 8086 and 80286 versions survived at all.
The 286 one was apparently very capable and did even more than Xenix within the tiny 64 kB process size limit the processor imposed.
@lproven The Elm email client ran perfectly on Coherent. I also easily ported XScheme by David Betz.
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@lproven With that Coherent setup I also used UUCP over dial-up to send email via an Italian provider connected to an Internet gateway at Rutgers University. My paid plan carried Usenet too but I never used it.
I was living in the future. I recall a Computer Science professor at the university I was a student at impressed by a mail I sent him.
@lproven Here it is, I got UUCP access from Sublink Network:
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@ilarioq @sport @claudio1883.bsky.social non sarà un biglietto a cambiare le cose. Ma, tornando al tennis, neanche il torneo di Loano, dove io vidi una minorenne Olga Danilovic ritirarsi x infortunio, cambia le cose. Ma se ne fai 100 dai la possibilità a ragazzi/e di guadagnare qualcosa e magari tra loro.. ma se non ci sono soldi, niente premi. Sì, volevo proprio dire quello su Genna/Berrettini
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@Yaku e non lo so, dipende da cosa promettono gli altri candidati
perché la tua proposta è meglio che niente, ma se si riuscissero a vietare i vocali punto sarebbe meglio
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Ottimo. Con la gigafactoy di batterie che sicuramente partirà a breve a Termoli e il produttore molisano che già opera, andremo a creare un polo automobilistico d'avanguardia nell Sud-Italia. L'ex #Ilva è sul baratro ma si lancia nell'idrogeno - Startmag https://www.startmag.it/energia/acciaierie-italia-idrogeno-h2loop/
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@stefano I will probably get a second 🙂
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Fs, tutto sul cyber attacco ad Almaviva
@informatica
Un pesante attacco hacker ai sistemi di Almaviva che gestisce l'infrastruttura telematica del Gruppo Fs avrebbe permesso ai pirati informatici di incamerare non meno di 2,3 TB di dati tra materiale confidenziale, contratti, Nda e forse persino archivi Hr. Nel bottino potrebbero essere finiti pure i dati dei passeggeri. Cosa
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Questa mattina continua a saltare l'energia elettrica. Ho messo in sicurezza il mio PC, SPEGNENDOLO, perché ci sono affezionato. Sono passato al portatile ma direi che per oggi smetto di lavorare e faccio altro.
#Terna #Cinquina e #Tombola
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@fucinafibonacci scusa non ho capito quale sia la piccola cosa.
Non ho capito neppure il ragionamento sugli 11n e Ganna, volevi forse dire "se Ganna fosse popolare come Berrettini" avremmo ecc "?
@sport @claudio1883.bsky.social
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