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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 16:35, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Monday 04 April 2011 11:13:58 Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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>> Oh, the nostalgy... :-) |
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>> My first computer I believe was an Apple ][, a hand-down from an |
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>> uncle. It ran only for 1-2 weeks before it went to the Bit Bucket in |
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>> the Sky. |
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> That's sad, only 2 weeks... |
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> A friend of my dad got us an apple-emulator, had a game I played a lot untill |
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> I found out that the game was incomplete and would always crash at the same |
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> point. It was a point-click adventure... |
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>> Then my parents got me an Atari 800XL. That's where I cut my |
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>> programming teeth with its built-in BASIC. |
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> Yes, the old days with Basic. I wonder if I still have the old programs... The |
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> 3.5" floppy-disks are still around somewhere.. |
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>> When its floppy drive (5.25") gave up the ghost, I got another |
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>> hand-down; a PC-XT compatible no-name with a huge (at that time) 20 MB |
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>> hard disk. |
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> 2nd one we had was a 386sx-16mhz with 2 mb ram and 40mb harddrive. |
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> I did try to install linux on that once, but the network-install took forever. |
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> The NIC could do 10mbit half-duples (coax), but effective speed was less. |
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> Symptoms: |
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> download 1KB at full speed |
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> card crashed |
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> driver resets after 5 minutes |
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> ... repeat... |
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Okay, I have to be honest: I LOL-ed at that... xD |
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> That was in 2.0.x kernels and I think I saw a change-log where that driver |
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> finally got fixed in 2.6.0 (could be mistaken on that. It was an Intel |
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> Etherlink-16) |
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> I don't have that card anymore. |
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>> Again, it died after serving me & my brother for a couple of years, |
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>> and we got a "PC Brand 486 SLC" desktop. And there I dabbled in Pascal |
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>> and ASM, making replacement drivers for MS-DOS :-P ... I still |
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>> remember tuning QEMM386.sys trying to eke the last bytes of Low |
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>> Memory... |
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> What's the most low-memory you could get it and still use it? |
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> I managed to get low memory to around 634KB (If I remember correctly) using |
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> the memory-tools that came with Norton Utilities at the time. |
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I don't really recall... but around the same number, I guess. 630-something. |
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Actually, I once managed to get 639KB, but lots of apps became |
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unstable, so I went slightly more conservative :-) |
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>> Afterwards, I started university, and its a blur of PC clones (and |
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>> Windows 9x)... and I shifted mental-gears to become a network engineer |
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> When did you switch to Linux? |
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> I switched when MS Windows 95 crashed once too many and decided to delete some |
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> files along with it. I didn't bother fixing that installation and eventually |
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> reclaimed the diskspace and removed it from /etc/lilo.conf. |
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Too many apps* I use day-by-day have only Windows version, so I never |
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did switch to Linux :-( |
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First time I ever deployed Linux for day-to-day work was when I |
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started an IT Training company with my former professor. We installed |
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Fedora Core but replaced the UI with xfce. |
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However, not until Ubuntu Hardy did I finally got serious about |
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migrating to Linux. Currently am still migrating the non-legacy |
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servers to Linux from Windows |
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* please consider "games" as "apps" :-P |
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Rgds, |
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-- |
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Pandu E Poluan |
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~ IT Optimizer ~ |
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