Re: [Plug] Philadelphia Area Computer Society

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 01:37:26PM -0500, Alexander John Batyi wrote:
> 
> The prez of the Unix group when I last went was Chris Fearnly and I think
> PLUG became what was left of the group sometime after that.  Chris; details?

I do not know if anyone took over the UNIX SIG leadership when I left
PACS.  I have not heard of any activity from PACS about Unix or Linux
since I left.  My best guess is that it died or atrophied.

I was UNIX SIG leader at PACS from December 1993 to January 1997.  My
first article for PACS' monthly newsletter, The Databus,
(http://www.CJFearnley.com/databus/93cfearnl.dec.txt) reminds me of the
days when I was a UNIX novice and reported on my first Linux install:
SLS 1.0.3 with kernel 0.99 patchlevel 13 and Word Perfect barely worked
under the DOS emulator!  Oh those were the days!  The nostalgia!

Then I reread my January 94 article
(http://www.CJFearnley.com/databus/94cfearnl.jan.txt) where I wrote
about dumping SLS for the new kid on the block: Slackware 1.1.0.  And I
observed "the revolution to free operating systems continues"!  It only
took Wall Street five years to acknowledge "the revolution"!

BTW, the earliest PLUG announcement that I can find was in the
December 1995 Databus
(http://www.CJFearnley.com/databus/95cfearnl.dec.txt).

For anyone interested in more history, I put all of my Databus articles
at http://www.CJFearnley.com/databus .

I need to get back to work helping the revolution to free operating
systems continue ...

-- 
Christopher J. Fearnley          |  Linux/Internet Consulting
cjf@netaxs.com                   |  Design Science Revolutionary
http://www.CJFearnley.com        |  Explorer in Universe
                  "Dare to be Naïve" -- Bucky Fuller

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