The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

Jim Lewis jim at jklewis.com
Thu Feb 26 09:22:57 UTC 2015


> On 26.02.2015, Dave Stevens wrote:
>
>> was it even on CD? My first slackware came from walnut creek on
>> diskettes
>> (20 of 'em!)
>
> I second that!
>

 Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. In case
anyone is interested I still have my original copy of Minix, PC/AT
Version, by Tanenbaum. Spent weeks compiling and tweaking it on my poor
little 286 machine until it gave up and died.

Jim Lewis




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