At University I got introduced to Motif/Xwindows, Unix, Vax and witnessed Linux emerge and taking over the computers of Science / IT students.
My only exposure to UNIX was SCO UNIX System V on a Compaq server, when I was the Technical Writer/Network Administrator/Webmaster for a medium sized staffing company in the mid- to late-90's. It was a basic server for DOS machines running LANtastic and ran WordPerfect 5.1. I learned a lot on that text-based system and even took a UNIX class, but the rest of the world was already well into GUI-based systems by then and I certainly craved an X-Windows upgrade on that box. It never came and by the time I left we were already transitioning to a purely Windows 95+ environment.
I found it funny that in college and the business world they were always AT LEAST a generation or two or three behind what home users were, simply because of the huge overhead involved in upgrades/changes. It should actually be the OTHER way around in a perfect world, but it never will be.
At University I got introduced to Motif/Xwindows, Unix, Vax and witnessed Linux emerge and taking over the computers of Science / IT students.
My only exposure to UNIX was SCO UNIX System V on a Compaq server, when I was the Technical Writer/Network Administrator/Webmaster for a medium sized staffing company in the mid- to late-90's. It was a basic server for DOS machines running LANtastic and ran WordPerfect 5.1. I learned a lot on that text-based system and even took a UNIX class, but the rest of the world was already well into GUI-based systems by then and I certainly craved an X-Windows upgrade on that box. It never came and by the time I left we were already transitioning to a purely Windows 95+ environment.
I found it funny that in college and the business world they were always AT LEAST a generation or two or three behind what home users were, simply because of the huge overhead involved in upgrades/changes. It should actually be the OTHER way around in a perfect world, but it never will be.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director | Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.