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Old 12-23-2012, 11:48 PM   #1
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IPX support was added to the Linux kernel in 1985?


Just go to http://oreilly.com/openbook/linag2/book/ch15.html and search the page for 1985. I guess Alan Cox had a time machine and backported Linux to run on 1985's computers.
 
Old 12-24-2012, 04:33 AM   #2
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Nice typo, should be 1994/1995 first release kernel with it was 1.2.0 (95) with the beta kernel 1.1 (94) covering it's introduction.
 
  


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