Re: Pi4 to Pi5 migration

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:42:41 -0000 (UTC)
<bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
 

Indeed. It's interesting to note that about ten years have

...

That's about how long it took from the advent of the i386 to
the general availability of *nix clones. 

 
         More like five years, the 80386 came out in 1987. There were BSD
ports available by 1993 and the first Linux release was in 1991. However
that's just open source - There were commercial XENIX and Interactive ports
earlier - even for the 80286.

We're comparing different endpoints. I started with 386BSD and it
could be made to install and run by about 1992, but that alone was
an accomplishment for a non-expert like me. It took a few more
years to become _usable_ by non-experts, in the form of FreeBSD.
Maybe I'm off a little on the dates (I learned of 386BSD about a
year after the Byte Magazine series by Jolitz) but then it was
still very fiddly. By about 1997-8 I was using FreeBSD for email.

Others were doubtless quicker on the uptake, but they were a select
group. I was (and am) merely an early-adopting consumer.

Thanks for posting,

bob prohaska