Actually, probably the most popular unix of the time was something SCO (the original SCO) was selling that ran on PC hardware. It was used in a lot of vertical market apps, some of which I was familiar with. It was particularly popular with the Unibase derivatives.
GNU very much existed, and was kind of a userland looking for a kernel at the time. Actually, most GNU stuff sucked, honestly, and it was a bit of a joke as to why anyone would replace the working userland in whatever Unix they were using with the GNU stuff. When Linux came along, GNU was just waiting. Hard to believe it's been 20 years. Michael On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. [email protected] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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