TBO Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22291324/linux-perseverance-mars-curiosity-ingenuity Sent from my Jack boot using Copatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Klaatu ran on linux. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 His laser-eye came from a souvenir shop on a boardwalk. But it was just a frequency carrier for a microsoft program that made tanks and jeeps disappear. He works in an Amazon warehouse now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdTracker Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 What did the Linux admin say to his racoon friend? I am root. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 22 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said: Klaatu ran on linux. His laser-eye came from a souvenir shop on a boardwalk. But it was just a frequency carrier for a microsoft program that made tanks and jeeps disappear. He works in an Amazon warehouse now. Klaatu didn't have a lazer-eye. You thinkin' bout Gort. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Gort was a whimsical alien that lived in the Rocky Mountains. He flew around in an egg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 "Linux, The best Known Operating System in Two Worlds" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 13 hours ago, Huaco Kid said: Gort was a whimsical alien that lived in the Rocky Mountains. He flew around in an egg. Shazbot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) This thread title draws me back to the days of yore and my callow youth. I recall installing Xenix on an IBM-XT class computer around 1979 or 1980. the entire operating system came on one 5.5 inch diskette, I think. I also worked with the real UNIX, but a license for that was just too expensive for the average user. I remember installing Red Hat Linux around ten years later. Again, the whole operating system came of a diskette from the back of a book on Linux and I have been using Red Hat and Fedora ever since. Many embedded systems for electronic devices were Linux kernels. Who remembers using TELNET to talk to things? Dang, I'm old. NB we used a modified, proprietary version of UNIX in the F/A-18 avionics. Don't tell anybody. Edited February 21, 2021 by tous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 21 minutes ago, tous said: Who remembers using TELNET to talk to things? Dang, I'm old. I remember all those things...and Telnet. Hell, i used Putty today to ensure i was able to remove 48 drives from a storage array and move them across town install about half of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 22 minutes ago, tous said: Many embedded systems for electronic devices were Linux kernels. This is almost an understatement. Linux runs just about everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) And we did most of it from an asynchronous, serial terminal with green characters on a black background, often a VT100. Who remembers what 0x7 character does? We're old. Edited February 21, 2021 by tous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 COBAL will never die! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 I have seen IRMA's face... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) Too bad that IRMA couldn't talk to a System 38. They had a PC card for that, too. NB The IBM 3270 terminal weighed 256 kilograms and required nine billion watts of electricity and put out enough heat to warm a small town.. If I recall, the keyboard had 16 PF keys. No one ever knew what they all did. But, it beat keypunched cards. Edited February 21, 2021 by tous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 2 hours ago, tous said: But, it beat keypunched cards. If I had a nickle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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