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From: eric pareja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Philippine Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 7:12 PM
Subject: [plug] When Linux Was pre-1.0: More Historical Reminiscing
>Back then, Linux ran only on 386/486 AT-bus machines. No non-Intel
>architectures were supported. Today, Linux runs on a variety of different
>hardware architectures. Last time I checked the official source tree, it
>supported 9 major architectures comprising the Alpha (Digital/Compaq), ARM
>(Netwinder), i386 (Intel 0x[3-6]86 and clones), m68k (Motorola 68000
>family), mips, ppc, s390, sparc and sparc64. There are various projects
>that attempt to further the scope of Linux platform compatibility.
You forgot the AS/400 or was it the s390 processor? I do know AS/400
blackbox uses Risc..
>It was a fledgeling operating system then, providing the functionality of
>a System V.3 kernel with not too many userland applications to speak of. I
>seriously doubt that many newcomers to Linux today would be as
>enthusiastic about Linux back then because of the serious lack of
>applications. The only use for Linux then was to for further kernel
>development using Linux itself or to possibly port programs such as
>bison/flex.
With the basic Unix, that alone can already be a server --- gopher server
source recompiled, you have ftp and sendmail...
that's enough in those days to make it a email, ftp and gopher server. At
least on ver 0.99 pl 14
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