out of curiosity, when did you first start using unix systems?

(please no replies with details on this one, if none of them fit exactly that's ok, just trying to get a very rough sense)

2020s
4.8%
2010s
17.2%
2000s
33%
1990s or earlier
45%
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@b0rk that includes Linux, right? 😳

@spitfire @b0rk yeah I wondered the same thing. It's not clear if Linux is being considered in this list...

Not that it matters in my case - I had the pleasure of goofing around on my dad's HP mainframe in the 1980s (and an ICL mainframe before that in the 1970s - don't know what that ran, but the punch cards made nice model aeroplanes...)

@mossman
On ICL 1907 and 290x in the late 1970s the OS was called George 3/4.
It had sort of scripting on the commandline which I used to circumvent restrictions for students in online vs. batch compiling for reasons.
We had a very fast Algol-68 compiler from the royal radar department.

@spitfire @b0rk

@grauzone @spitfire @b0rk I went looking on Wikipedia after I posted that. Seems the ICL stuff were very weird systems with very weird firmware/OSes