[Wolves] A fun little game for you all :)

[Ron Wellsted]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 10:51, James Turner wrote:
> On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 9:11 am, David Goodwin wrote:
> > > I found my earliest record as 24th April 1998 on
> > > alt.os.linux.slackware at
> > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=35410
> > >300.0%40news9.kcdata.com&rnum=69&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522jono%2Bbacon%2522
> > >%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26start%3D60%26
> > >sa%3DN.
> > >
> > >   Jono
> >
> > You just beat me...
> >
> > 1998/09/05
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=35F109F
> >F.42C97AC%40weetabix.kc3ltd.co.uk&rnum=71&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2B%2522dof%254
> >0i.am%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF
> >
> > I seem to vaguely remember that X didn't support my graphics card in
> > anything other than 600x480 with redhat 5.2 (?) or slackware 3.4/3.6 at
> > the time, so I gave up on it until I started CompSci (probably about 4
> > weeks later on from the above).
> >
> > David.
> 
> The earliest I can find for myself is 01/06/1998:
> 
> http://ftp.cis.nctu.edu.tw/data/armlinux/lists/linux-arm/archive.199806
> 
> I'm providing help with the bootloader for ARM Linux, which ironically, I 
> never managed to get working on my RiscPC. (My problem was that the console 
> driver assumed the presence of at least 1Mb of VRAM (video RAM), which I 
> hadn't got, and wouldn't work without it. The problem was still present in 
> Linux 2.4.x (x=low number) - might give it a try on 2.6 sometime.)
> 
> League table of results so far:
> 
> 19/03/1998 - Aq (passing off Minix as Linux - should he be disqualified?)
> 24/04/1998 - Jono Bacon
> 01/06/1998 - James Turner
> 05/09/1998 - David Goodwin
> 
> Interesting that these are all quite close to each other.
> 
> James
How about 4 Jan 1998:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=34affeba.2665232%40betanews.mcmail.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

(maybe I should be disqualified on grounds of old age)

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Ron Wellsted
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