Re: Online Apple BBS's

[The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:02:28 +0100, HansO wrote:

> The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote:
> 
>>
>>	There are cross-over systems. There was a local BBS which was running off
>>a Linux box about 15 years ago. 
> 
> Sure it was Linux? http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php tells the first version of
> a linux kernel was released by Linus in 1991. And it was not capable of much.
> Maybe in 1995?

	It indeed was Linux. This was a couple of years after Linus asked the
community which direction Linux should take (networking or desktop - I
suggested both). I got my comp. sci. degree in 1991 so it was about that
time. The guy running the BBS (Victor) graduated either the year before or
the year after. I can't remember the exact date, but it was up to two
years after. As I said *about* 15 years ago. The system was pretty simple.
He could have tweaked and compiled BSD code for all I know... What ever it
was, it worked with my GS.

> How fast time flies and how far this  " (free) operating system (just a hobby,
> won't be big and professional like gnu)" has become. 
> Hans: http://www.hansotten.com

	No kidding. It seems the local *NIX user group has more members at each
meeting. A great deal of happy people as well.

				Later
				Mike