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Greetings!
« on: February 15, 2008, 05:00:20 PM »
Hi all,

I'm an Amiga user from the "classic" era, 1985-1990.

A friend of mine bought an Amiga 1000 in November 1985, and that's what sparked my interest in computers and computer programming.  I liked it so much that I went back to school in 1989 and got a degree in computer science.

I worked for a large PC manufacture during the first half of the 90's, so I was pretty much into MS/DOS and Windows during that time.  I vaguely recall Commodore going out of business. I learned Unix in school, and started using Linux in 1998.  I was looking forward with great anticipation to the MCC: It looked like it would be a return to the "glory days," but we all know how that turned out.

After Gateway canned the MCC I went Linux whole hog.  I had a very brief encounter with OS X, but it didn't impress me.

Now days I'm a C/Unix programmer for a company that does biomedical research.  I've been working on a lightweight desktop environment for Linux in my spare time.  I recently purchased a copy of Amiga Forever so that I could see that blue and orange desktop once again. :-)

"Unix is supposed to fix that." -- Jay Miner