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> the X11 system was ported to it, making 1992 the year of the Linux desktop.

That's rich!




I literally busted out laughing! We've been waiting all these years and... we missed it?!? xD


I remember running X the first time on Linux just after it was reported working because I happened to have the exact chipset that Peter MacDonald supported in my 386 at the time. We ran it off of a boot and root floppy - both 3.5", 1.44MB disks.

We didn't do much with it at the time, but it was a big deal... we had only run X on workstations before that, and they were expensive and few and far between.




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