[geeks] The best things in the world

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sep 12, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 04:29:37PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> I heard about 386BSD and Coherent before I heard about Linux.   
>> Anecdotal
>> evidence is unreliable in either direction.
>
> It depended upon where you were. If you were in a CS department at
> a university, you heard about Linux. If you were out in the "real  
> world",
> you heard about Xenix, x86 UNIX, Coherent and BSD.

I was in neither a college nor the real world.  I was in jr. high,  
and I suspect that was about where Jonathan was when he got turned  
onto UNIXish stuff.  I would check out books on unix and programming  
X11 from the library even though I didn't get to touch any such systems.