impressive, too, KitJ. :), i started my computer engineering career in the 70’s and i’m now running linux on a 16 year, old many times repaired dell, with a paltry 2GB ram and cache, 1.3 GB swap and a 128 GB memory chip for the operating system and my few personal files. i started on teraks, commodore64s, and ibm pcs. we did have a dec vax running Berkeley and Bell Labs UNIX in our math department computer lab though. everyone had their own proprietary operating systems. lots of work to be had. ah the good old days.
Who remembers the cassette tape recorders that showed up just after the IBM punch cards?
We could write and store programs on a CASSETTE tape! Plug in your Radio Shack tape recorder, hit record, and go to town.
That was my era. Only at school. I couldn’t afford my own PC until the early 90s. I didn’t connect to the internet until the late 90s.
What times.
Now I run Linux on everything I can.