[svlug] aberrant thought

[David E. Fox]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:35:54 -0800
Steve Hindle <steve at itsage.com> wrote:


> Personally, I'd like to think curiosity had a lot to do with it.  For 
> instance - I got into OSS because of gcc.  I wanted to learn 'C' and 

Curiosity was a factor in my early plunge as well, as was this
newfangled 386sx I had bought early on in 1991 and a desire to see what
it could really do with some RAM that wasn't just involving it running
as a fast 8086. :)

I had managed to find Delorie's DOS gcc port long before I found out
about linux and was playing with it off and on (look ma, I can malloc()
a megabyte!) :) and then I got wind of this linux thing sometime later
(1992 or 1993 I think) as someone had posted boot/root disks for it on a
local BBS.



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