Subj : Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
To   : phigan
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Oct 08 2025 06:37:39

-=> phigan wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

 ph> VMS was weird to me. The FS has 8.3 style all-caps filenames and
 ph> reminded me of DOS and later CP/M when I saw that ;).

I ran command-line UNIXes back then, mostly BSD/OS. We got our first
windowed UNIX, Univel UNIXWare. I installed it, then was dissapointed in
the UI. It ran Motif, and looked just like the GeoWorks I ran on my
386SX at home!

My boss at the time thought it was the coolest thing because UNIXWare
was a product from a division of Novell, and it could talk to Netware
servers, file shares and use Netware user info.

So, what did we do with it? Put it outside of our firewall and have it
act as a mail and FTP bastion host, where it couldn't talk to our
Netware network...   :(


 
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