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The Last Farkle

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Linux Journal; By John maddog Hall 		Mail this story
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In the spring of 1983 I went to work for Digital Equipment Corporation. At that time Digital was mostly providing support for different flavors of Unix on their PDP-11 and VAX lines of computers for the telephone company and universities that were using them. However, a decision had been made to make and release a binary-only version of the Unix operating system so commercial customers could get it without having to pay the very high source-code license fee that AT&T required of them.

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ColonelPanik ·
Once I had a distro actually running, the search for help started. J. maddog H. was posting on the old "TinyMinds" site. He was everything good in the Linux community. He still is.

Read the article and learn a little about Linux/FOSS/cool people and what community is!

Thanks maddog.
dinotrac ·
I still remember my first New York Linuxworld --

I went into the big hallway and saw all of the shiny booths, etc. I knew that I was actually there when I saw Mad Dog sitting Buddha-like at a table -- what was it for? Linux Foundation? -- talking to Dave Whitinger.

Ah, the memories.

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