On 3/24/06, Dominique Cimafranca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Migs: we didn't use Linux back at Digital. It was mostly Digital UNIX and > OpenVMS running on the Alpha.
Oh I thought you set up Infocom. And it was still open source sendmail, httpd, etc. on Unix, wasn't it? I remember Digital's marketingback in 1993 or so... the first 64-bit CPU... then it's only now that 64-bit is becoming the mainstream desktop architecture, and it's not even fully utilized. > The first ISP I got to work with was Portal, Inc. (previously named Binary > systems) set up by Ben Litonjua and two of his friends. Patrick Deakin, who later joined SAGE Casino, our neighbor (back in the IPhil days) at 116 Herrera St. Prior to that I remember visiting Portal, Inc. at The Atrium, but for what I don't remember. > I think it might > have been the second ISP in the country. Certainly it preceded Infocom by a > couple of months. It used an AOL walled garden model and all the services > were behind a firewall (and that became a problem much later). I remember it was running some BBS-style system, and they were looking for content partners. > Then there was another ISP in Bangladesh....but that's a different country > and a different story. That's Dom... international man of pioneering Internet :) _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
