In alt.os.linux.slackware, Alex dared to utter,
> Didn't Slackware start around 1993 and Linux wasn't even around until
> 1991. Just nitpicking :-)

Slackware 1.0 came out in 1993. There were several earlier versions of
Slackware.

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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5

Heh - yeah. In the 1980's I was doing bench tech work on video games
and pinballs, (and scrounging uP's and building TV typewriters &
hardware drivers & stuff at home) and working part time upstairs
with CP/M and MP/M on an 8085/8088 (or maybe 8086) machine from,
I think, CompuPro or Cromemco or something like that.

The PC had just come out, and they cost about as much as a car, IIRC.

Cheers!
Rich

"David Stites" <david@dstites.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:jK7Zb.49330$1S1.3975@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
>
> "Rich Grise" <null@example.net> wrote in message
> news:z14Zb.48468$1S1.15928@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
> > Just a sort of random thought; my first Linux was Slackware
> > 2 or 3 or so - downloaded it back in the mid-1980s and it was
>
> Do you mean the mid-1990s? My first Linux was Slackware 3.0 with kernel
1.2
> and 1.3 in 1995.
>

<snip>
> Rich Grise wrote:
>
> > Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
Being a Larry Niven fan I went for...
O2 modeling workstation: barsoom
Sun U30 workstation: heorot
O2 number cruncher: footfall
Windoze nt4 pain: crashland
SGI Octane: wemadeit
my xp/dos/slack9.1 dell laptop: woohoo

Woody
woody-140e@sbcglobal.net

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On 2004-02-20, Alan Hicks <1001298936@carrier.lizella.net> wrote:
> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Alex dared to utter,
>> Didn't Slackware start around 1993 and Linux wasn't even around until
>> 1991. Just nitpicking :-)
>
> Slackware 1.0 came out in 1993. There were several earlier versions of
> Slackware.

But none from the mid-1980s, as Rich seemed to claim.

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* phrag <phrag@dev.null> writes:

>> On my home lan, they're named according to their location.
>>
>> Den1
>> Den2
>> Kitchen
>> LRoom
>> BdRoom
>> Jefferson (as in Airplane - a wireless laptop)
>>
>> JW
> You have on in kitchen ? =P

Of course. It's his coffee server. See RFC2324 to learn all about
HTCPCP (Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol).

I'd be more worried if he had one named "Toilet", though. :-)

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Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> says...

>Alan Hicks <1001298936@carrier.lizella.net> wrote:
>>
>> Slackware 1.0 came out in 1993. There were several earlier versions of
>> Slackware.
>
>But none from the mid-1980s, as Rich seemed to claim.

You don't remember Slackware CP/M?



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Rich Grise wrote:
> I think it'd be fun if as many folks as feel like it would
> post a little post with the name of their computer, and
> maybe even how did you come up with it?

Linux server: Dobie
iBook: Zelda
Sony Clié: Maynard

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20:43:01 up 3 days, 4:28, 16 users, load average: 1.16, 1.11, 1.25
152 processes: 149 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 6.1% user 5.3% system 88.4% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle

Bocks as in Box

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:19:20 +0000, Lew Pitcher wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:49:03 GMT, "Rich Grise" <null@example.net> wrote:
> [snip]
>>Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
> Usually apropos personal names...
> - My Z80 CP/M system is Simon ("Simple Simon", really)
> - My Slackware 9.0 server is Merlin (because he knows everything and does magic)
> - My Slackware 9.0 desktop is Bitsie ("Bitsie Puter", because it's cute)
> - My Slackware 9.0 laptop is Aurora (it's bright and a Northern Light)
> - My wife's Win95 laptop is SuzieQ (it's old and it wobbles, like the dance)

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:12:51 +0000, Blumf wrote:

> Name mine after fruit, don't know why. pear, plum, peach so far, running out
> of p* fruit names.

prune, pineapple

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Linux Registered User #327951

Rich Grise wrote:

<snip>
>
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
> Cheers!
> Rich

My Slack box is called - SL (Slackware Linux; ok, ok, not very creative!).

My Win98 box is called "lazy" - (used to) have to reboot it afer every 3 or
4 hours of use, or after running some IE windows together with another
application, due to the massive (and increasing) slowdown that would follow
(probably because of memory leaks). Horrible. Really became my Wintendo.
Still, when playing some games, I had to reboot after 2 or 3 matches.