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user in the 1980s. I programmed software for multiple military projects, and have networked university and large businesses during the network protocol (TCP/IP) standardization period of the late 80s. I have used VMS, Unix, DOS, Windows, Apple operating systems (including OS X) and Linux (Debian,
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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Puppylinux). I have networked using Novell, AppleTalk, NFS, Samba (Windows protocols). I made a detour to MS Windows for 10 years. Over the past 3 years I have used Debian, (K)Ubuntu, and
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