Linus' visit, was: InkScape

[Mark Komarinski]

Ben Scott wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>>> The BLU records a visit to Boston by Linux in May of 1995:
>>>       
>> This sounds about right for the UNH visit.
>>     
>
>   Unless my wetware memory is severely corrupted, I graduated Sanborn
> Regional High School Class of 1995.  I entered UNH Fall 1995, and
> withdrew Summer 1997.  And I distinctly remember attending a talk at
> UNH, by some guy with a funny accent, in an auditorium packed full of
> people.  And I remember some other guy, with a big gray beard, giving
> the funny-accent guy a *very* dirty look when funny-accent guy said
> "Even a single P6 kicks ass."  Maybe I'm confusing all that with some
> *other* operating system, but I don't think OS/2 attracted quite that
> kind of fan following, even back then.
I wasn't living in eastern MA in 1995.  I moved here in the beginning of 
'96 and my memories of the UNH event are similar to Ben's, so either he 
and I were abducted and had false memories (OooEEEeOOoo), or Linus was 
in UNH in early '96.

-Mark