Re: CHAT: operating systems (was Re: I think I've got it.)

On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 11:15 , Anton Sherwood wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>> I wanted badly to learn Linux at one point, but I didn't think freshman
>> year of college was a good time to experiment with a new OS . . .
>
> What, you hadn't been using a dialup Unix for years for your mail and
> news?
>
> Kids today!
<squirm>  First computer I actually got to use was some flavor of
Commodore with a cassette tape drive.  Usual vague Apple experiences
(including some BASIC) in elementary school.  Some years after that my dad
acquired a (used?) 80286 from work; we had to get it *upgraded* to DOS
2.11, and two of my tech-savvy friends in middle school showed me the in's
and out's.  I didn't actually realize UNIX existed until high school,
though we did get a dial-up modem connection for BBSing and basic internet.
   We can't all be enlightened.  ;-)  I'm running Mac OS X right now, which
I'm sure a lot of people despise, but the GUI doesn't bother me (I mostly
use keyboard commands) and it's fun playing around with the UNIX
underpinnings.

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
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