How a university network assistant used Linux in the 90s

Posted by bob on May 4, 2018 12:33 PM EDT
Opensource.com; By Alan Formy-Duval
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In the mid-1990s, I was enrolled in computer science classes. My university’s computer science department provided a SunOS server—a multi-user, multitasking Unix system—for its students. We logged into it and wrote source code for the programming languages we were learning, such as C, C++, and ADA. In those days, well before social networks and instant messaging, we also used the system to communicate with each other, sending emails and using utilities such as write and talk. We were each also allowed to host a personal website.

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