[Gllug] Dealing with "Word-Only" organisations

general_email at technicalbloke.com general_email at technicalbloke.com
Sat Nov 6 17:20:19 UTC 2010


On 06/11/10 11:43, Tethys wrote:
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> "general_email at technicalbloke.com" writes:
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>> Given that your desktop choices were DOS6, Win3.1 and OS2 (hooked up,
>> if you were lucky, to a 28k modem) when labour came into power
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> Speak for yourself. I was running Linux at the time, and had been for several years.
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> Tet
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Yes, some of the brave souls I was at Uni with had working linux 
desktops by the mid 90s. I remember my mate Dave fighting with his 
Ollivetti 486 DX25 for nearly a week to get X working, let's not pretend 
that was a viable solution for widescale deployment to end users back 
then! ;)

Roger
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