On Sunday, October 15, 2006 4:12 AM [GMT+1=CET], Fred Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 October 2006 9:58 pm, Tim Jowers wrote: >> ps2pdf13 is my friend! That is the opensource funcational >> equivalent of distiller. BTW, did you know Linux was started in 1971 >> solely to help AT&T publish their documents! Of course Linux has >> the right tools... just knowing what to use! > > So where did you get the "Linux was startd in 1971 solely to help > AT&T" crap.. sorry but linux was not even in this country then.. Fred <snip> Perhaps he meant Unix. See http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#01 Linux was 1991, 20 years later, as evidenced by this e-mail (fragment quoted) which I found at https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/linux/#In%20The%20Beginning ======== begin quoted e-mail (fragment only) ========== From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. =========== end fragment ======== Note the "won't be big ..." ;-) Sorry for the off topic post. Harold Fuchs London, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
