Posted on 09/14/2007 2:48:44 PM PDT by Nick Danger
I remember those days.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of guys.
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Sco Group IncSCOX (NASDAQ CM) 0.37 Change:-0.28 -43.08% Volume :490,100
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SCO has not hesitated to intimidate the open-source community -- in an interview late last month, SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride warned that Linux software still remains "squarely in the cross-hairs."
See above link at post # 65!
w00t! w00t!
I agree if you are talking about Santa Cruz. SCO Group have been weasels all along. They were formally Caldera and successfully sued MS to a settlement over their rough treatment of DR-DOS (by then known as Caldera DOS). I will never forgive them for settling right when they got MS on the ropes...
They then basically folded up Caldera DOS and bought Santa Cruz from the proceedings of the settlement. At the time, they received high praise from the *nix crowd, but considering what they did to Caldera DOS, I had a pretty good idea of where they would wind up. POS's.
My first "home" computer was an Altos 586, that I've still got somewhere in my garage, along with two Altos II terminals! Back around 1985, I bought it for $1000, and swapped in a 40MB drive (another $1000) so I could load up the Xenix development system. Yes, for you newbies, you could get an OS and an entire development system on a 40MB drive, and still have space to work!
All work stopped at the shop for about a week when we got a copy of rogue! "Wait! There's a badger!"
Mark
Hey! I'm looking at a pair of USR Dual Standards with the little gold NFR "badges" that I got as a SYSOP special. I started with host mode in QMODEM, and eventually moved to PCBoard software to run my BBS. I don't think these modems have been plugged in or turned on in more than 12 years! Why they're still sitting out in plain view, I don't know...
Mark
It's quite a hazy memory, but I recall going to an SCO conference in CA in the mid-80s where the two brothers who were in charge sky-dived into the event, and I recall there was a really good band, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was...
And somewhere around here I've got my original O'Reilly Nutshell handbooks that I bought at Computer Literacy. Back then, they looked mimeographed, with covers stapled on, that looked like they were made out of grocery store bags! One in using curses, the other on TermCap and TermInfo! Man, it's been a VERY long time!
Mark
I remember Caldera DOS. It had a very cool web browser. Of course, at the time I was working for a Novell Authorized Education Center, and one of my co-workers was one of the first Caldera authorized instructors in the country.
Mark
It still lives on in OpenDOS and Udo Kuntz's Extended DOS (the ongoing work). It (caldera DOS 7) was also later divested by SCO as DR-DOS (it's original name) and is still available as version 8 (i think) as a commercial product.
I still have scratch drives loaded with Caldera DOS. There are some situations where it is quite handy, though I must confess, MS-DOS 7.10 (the DOS from Win98) is probably the most useful anymore, as it is widely supported by the DOS community.
And to get it out of the way: linux is communism, linus's parents were commies, red hat is red flag, ibm helped the nazis, linux doesn't respect IP, whack the git, foreign freeware, squawk!
Nick D: glad to see you are back and posting.
It is a shame that the Blustery Buzzard did not live to see this day. He would have been so proud :)
Yellow Chicken was a girl?
Do you have a link to or about that? I Googled several permutations and didn't find anything.
I always thought of him as Bill Gates’ fluff girl, but, no. You have to admit, though, mentally, he’s a combination of Helen Thomas and Cindy Sheehan.
Sounds about right.
Ah, the good old days. I got my first kernel panic on SCO.
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