On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:39:06PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
First Unixy experience was BSD on an Amiga 1200 (heavily modified with 030 processor, SCSI CDROM and a (massive for the time) 32MB of RAM) I still have it in the loft and keep threatening to bring it to a meet.
Ooh, please do. Even though I recently sold all my Amiga stuff I'm still a great fan of the amiga. Unfortunately my Amiga 4000 only had an EC030 so couldn't run any type of Unix or Linux, BSD etc.
FWIW my first PC was a Pentium II 233, with 64 megs of Ram and a 4 gig disk which I purchased in 1997 so I could get online. The main reason I moved to Linux was because Windows was such a pile of crap compared to my experiences with the Amiga and Linux seemed like the best logical progression. Even now i'm not a fan of PC hardware at all, but then there doesn't seem to be any really "good" architectures around (at least, not that I can afford).
Adam