Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: Decline Of Pc's
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Thu Jan 01, 2026 09:39

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-=> Rob Mccart wrote to OGG <=-

 RM> My first computers were Apple II+ based so I was using books
 RM> that weresupplied by Apple to the colleges.

 For me, it was O'Reilly books with the black and white animal drawings
 on the front.

 Myfirst experience with them, was, as a fledgling unix admin, having
 to replace a DNS server in our office. We'd borrowed a SUN box from the
 local university that provided us with our internet circuit, and they
 wanted it back.

 I went into the office ona Saturday morning, fired up a pot of coffee,
 took an old desktop PC and loaded BSD/OS on it. Picked up Cricket Liu's
 DNS andBind book, and by 1:00pm had a fully working DNS server
 handling forward and reverse zones for 3 class C subnets.

 Well written, they are.




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