> they basically insulted me saying that my brand new $3,500 PC wasn't good enough.
Big chuckle there, so good. Hey, at least they had a sense of humour.
But I agree the hardware support could be much better even to this day.
> they basically insulted me saying that my brand new $3,500 PC wasn't good enough.
Big chuckle there, so good. Hey, at least they had a sense of humour.
But I agree the hardware support could be much better even to this day.
My feeling at the time was that BSD developers and many users were at least 30 years old or much older and had professional jobs and money.
The Linux community felt like college students with no job and not much money. That included Linus Torvalds himself who developed the kernel while in college and wasn't rich. DEC basically gave Linus an Alpha to get him to port the kernel to it.