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Paleontological Musings On Tux?
ibm1130 asks: "I was unpacking, since I had recently moved from Virginia back to Silicon Valley, and I came across an old piece of technological ephemera. To whit a 'UNIX Pocket Guide' issued by Link Advanced Products Division, an entity once housed in what is now the Fry's in Sunnyvale, CA and for whose parent I once toiled in upstate NY. I'm not sure where I really got the thing. The booklet is dated Aug 1983 and on the front cover is a small cartoon of a penguin in front of a computer console. I'll probably take the thing to this year's SVLUG UNIX picnic. Now it's highly unlikely that Linus ever saw a copy of the booklet, although Finnair did have some Link-built flight simulators at one point, in the correct 90's time-frame, and some of them may have been hosted on UNIX boxes (possibly Motorola board sets in Schroff boxes with 68010 or 68015 chips for CPUs, IIRC ). It is however kind of interesting that Linus wasn't the first person to associate our mascot with the Unix continuum. A later version of the same booklet is a much slicker product but is minus the cartoon and the Link APO attribution. Does anybody have/know of an older instance of the Penguin-Unixverse connection?"
Perhaps you should ask Darl McBride of SCO. He owns UNIX and every penguin in the whole world.
I once found my old Yggdrasil boot CD's floating around at the bottom of an old dusty box, and just for grins I fired it up on a PC I had spare at the time.
:) I remember having to wait 20 minutes for my old 486 box to boot from those CD's (well, okay, I was using the 'live CD' boot to X feature of Ygg, heh heh heh ...) but these days, on the PC's we have now, holy smokes is all I can say!
Holy smokes, was Yggdrasil ever FAST!!!
Really fun to see the old Linux distro's, anyway. If you ever find a 1.0 release from a Linux distro - keep it!
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
He seems intelligent to me - I sure as hell wouldn't be posting links to a scanned copy of *anything* on Slashdot ;)
Since something from 1983 clearly isn't "news", I can only assume that this is considered stuff that matters.
In which case, gods help us all.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak