On 4/9/21 11:48 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: >> [...] > > [...] > > cu > Adrian
I was about to reply, but Adrian and Iustin more or less wrote what I would have (and I don't want to repeat in a different manner). On 4/10/21 12:02 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Microsoft catalyzed the democratization of the Internet by > contributing to the boom of low-cost commodity PCs; and without > the rise of the Internet, the Free Software movement would not > have taken off. The first computer I used to connect to Internet was an Atari Falcon using MiNT (Mint Is Not/Now Tos, not the Linux distro), which was also my first Unix computer. Without Microsoft, I probably would still be running an Atari compatible machine. At the time I had: - CAB as a web browser - Virtual tty (ALT - F1 to F9, F10 being the AES desktop) - a nice mail client (was it named OMail ?) - GCC 2.x running on minixfs :) For my own case, I have been driven to Linux because Windows was so much a bad product, and hated it compared to my previous Atari running MiNT, which was already running a big chunk of its OS with free software. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
