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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