Well, sure, but you have to understand some of the context of the time. 4.4 BSD was not yet out, so none of the BSD derivatives yet existed, nor had AT&T sued Berkeley yet. If you had a PC at that time, you ran DOS and Windows 3.1 (or OS/2, if you wanted something with protected memory). I don't think BSD even ran on 386 computers at that time. So if you wanted a Unix environment, you either got yourself an account with a university that had such a machine or you ran Minix, which was really just intended as a teaching tool, not a serious environment. GNU might have existed, but the Hurd kernel was far from finished.
Into that scenario, where the only people running Unix are running it on minicomputers, your application base is extremely small. So unless you liked Unix for the sake of running Unix, you probably weren't very interested in that. After all, it's the applications, not the operating system, which drives adoption. When you really think about the environment into which it was launched, it is really amazing that it took off and grew the way it did. -Tilghman On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Chris Faulkner <[email protected]> wrote: > Notice the unsure attitude about the tone of the email. Like he wasnt sure > if people would like it.. > > On Aug 25, 2013 12:45 PM, "Curt Lundgren" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> He done good. >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Chris Faulkner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> https://www.linux.com/news/software/linux-kernel/734956-linuss-famous-email >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "NLUG" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "NLUG" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
