[ale] young linuxer becomes an old fart.. sort of

[Lightner, Jeff]

Interesting - he does have things like Qnix and A/UX (Apple's UNIX back
in the System 7 days) but not NEC Astrix which was another oddity I
worked on once.

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Geoffrey
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Subject: Re: [ale] young linuxer becomes an old fart.. sort of

Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 08:41 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>> Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>> I remember walking to school uphill in a snowstorm to learn UNIX...
>> I remember installing UNIX SVR3 on a 3b2 via 5.25" floppies..
>>
> 
> Speaking of this,  I'm trying to find a unix timeline that will show
all
> the flavors and their roots.  Any links on the Internet?

There is, somewhere a pictorial reference of what you're looking for.  I

actually had it at one time as a poster in my cube back in the day.

A quick google brought me this:

http://www.levenez.com/unix/

Which is pretty cool.  Move your mouse over the gray image after the 
first line.

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