I dont know if I would call 13 years 'Decades' ;)
"I dont know if I would call 13 years 'Decades' ;)"
Thats apple years. Ya know kinda like dog years but more trendy.
> I dont know if I would call 13 years 'Decades' ;)
That period (I mark it from about 1977, the first BSD distro, until about 1993, when the first thing that might be called a Linux distro appeared) might have been only 16 chronological years, but it was like 30 in any other industry. Consider the history of the development of the railroad, car, airplane, from novelty to solid part of the social and business world. All took much longer. Computers, small ones in particular, went from almost nothing to life-essential.
How time flies when you're having fun.
(BTW, if you wish to date to 1991, when Torvalds announced his kernel, you'd then also have to go back to 1974 when the first BSD system got underway... which is about the same interval. Either way, I grant it isn't over 20 years. It just seemed that way...)