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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep, there was not a lot of Un*x desktop in the 90s, mainly SCO, SVR4, BSD, SunOS1/SunOS2/Solaris.

It was the great time of mainframe, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Silicon graphics IRIX, and we had dozens of TX (X Terminal, a thin client running local X). I was a sysadmin on those dinosaurs, it was a good times. Installing HPUX8 with magnetic tapes, what a time.. you know that the tar command means tape archiver, right?

And before that it was 8" floppy disk we used on older system like GCOS6 / DPS6 / Mini6, google it, it as fun :) the one I used was exactly as the one on this picture http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/gcos6/gcos6.htm

[–] Dariusmiles2123 3 points 8 months ago

Interesting article which makes me wanna learn more about the history of home computers even if I don’t understand all the terminology.

I feel so happy to have found a home which is not Windows anymore and not having to compromise too much.