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ATARI TOS was based CPM/68k and the gui stuff was GEM stuff licensed from DEC...I got a hold of a full set of development manuals
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About that time and prior the 68k series were commonly used for full unix systems... CPM/68k is quite unix like, I remeber reading some of the comments made in the code about not having fork and a few other multisuser unix system calls..
And my first linux box was my uber pentium 60(FDIV bug and all)
Its a bit weird, everybody seems to be quite happy doing console stuff(and I still HAVE to do it regularly) , but I hate it and I am on the constant lookout for stuff that will keep me away from it.
Gentoo:->(from all indication is very good), You start from scratch and bootstrap a syustem which is quite lean...but you have very little tools at the start of the process...
Mandrake:-> quite bloated, but all the tools are their from the get up and go, so its "reasonably" easy to "lean" it out by recompiling and removing the components you don't want
My current mdk9.1 kernel will easily fit on floppy, and everything except specidifc hadrware is compiled into the kernel with only video4linux, network drivers audio and video drivers compiled as modules( mainly due to nv and ati drives only being available as modules)
Next step is a lean mozilla firebird, and then my desktop manager...as fat and bloated as KDE is, it suits my peculiar needs(once I have given it a wack with the magic recompile stick)
Just compiling the kernel with correct CPU and removing stuff seem to almost halve boot up time and is a LOT faster in general than the stock mandrake kernel.
Another thing I have noticed over the years....and is still true with win2k/XP. I look after my brothers computer install and fix problems. With windows(win2k included) they will need some drastic fixing every 6months or so, but with linux I never have to "fix" it, as they never seem to be able to "break" it...
(hardware & /software)
About that time and prior the 68k series were commonly used for full unix systems... CPM/68k is quite unix like, I remeber reading some of the comments made in the code about not having fork and a few other multisuser unix system calls..
And my first linux box was my uber pentium 60(FDIV bug and all)
Its a bit weird, everybody seems to be quite happy doing console stuff(and I still HAVE to do it regularly) , but I hate it and I am on the constant lookout for stuff that will keep me away from it.
Gentoo:->(from all indication is very good), You start from scratch and bootstrap a syustem which is quite lean...but you have very little tools at the start of the process...
Mandrake:-> quite bloated, but all the tools are their from the get up and go, so its "reasonably" easy to "lean" it out by recompiling and removing the components you don't want
My current mdk9.1 kernel will easily fit on floppy, and everything except specidifc hadrware is compiled into the kernel with only video4linux, network drivers audio and video drivers compiled as modules( mainly due to nv and ati drives only being available as modules)
Next step is a lean mozilla firebird, and then my desktop manager...as fat and bloated as KDE is, it suits my peculiar needs(once I have given it a wack with the magic recompile stick)
Just compiling the kernel with correct CPU and removing stuff seem to almost halve boot up time and is a LOT faster in general than the stock mandrake kernel.
Another thing I have noticed over the years....and is still true with win2k/XP. I look after my brothers computer install and fix problems. With windows(win2k included) they will need some drastic fixing every 6months or so, but with linux I never have to "fix" it, as they never seem to be able to "break" it...
(actually almost version 1.0.5 by the looks of it) I loved my Jaguar. Pissed me off that my Power Drive Rally cartdridge died on me, loved that game to death (literally!) Last I played it on the virtual Jaguar, it was pretty buggy, but that was in windows. Just tried your package of it, and it didn't work (but then again I hadn't told it where the bios was... what's the switch for that?) 
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