Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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RE[5]: Thank you all for reading!
by ApproachingZero on Sun 14th May 2006 20:48
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Not all Linux distros work equally well on all commodity x86 computers. x86 Macs are still proprietary, because of EFI.
Now, how many Linux distros did you say are known to work on x86 Macs?