Introduction
I started my IT career working with Unix applications and databases back in the early ’90s, and my first job ever was as a data processing manager for a small IT shop. Back then, I was running Unix System V Release 4 on an NCR system. With such big and expensive minicomputer systems, I was always wondering if I could have a Unix system on less expensive hardware, such as a PC, to learn and test without disrupting our shared test systems.
Then I read an article in a personal computing magazine about something called Linux. Nobody knew what Linux was back in those days. Very few people—mostly at universities—had access to the Internet back in those days. So I downloaded Linux on four or five floppy disks, installed it on a PC, and ...
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