On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:55, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Ron, > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Sam made an "I" statement: > > > I would also like to point out that some of the most bright persons I > > > currently know in the computer field are people who had such early > > > experience with computers (Bill Kendrick anyone? The guys a coding > > > machine... ;-) > > > > Humph. Yet again, that's just not true. > > Woah, hold on ... > > > Did Kernigan, Ritchie, > > Ken Thompson, Bill Joy, RMS, Steve Wozniak, Gary Kildall, shoot, > > *anyone* from the MIT AI Lab, the TMRC, Stanford AI Lab, Linux, > > Alan Cox, Donald Becker, or even the people who designed and program- > > med that PDP-11 or your Atari get exposed to computers at an early > > age? > > Sam, are these people you currently know in the computer field? :)
Sam? I do know that these people weren't exposed to computers at a young age, because back in the 50's and '60s, computers only existed in glass rooms and research labs. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 296,443 sq mi (767,787 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live at the same population density as Manhattan, New York. That is ~ Arizona or Nevada. Alternatively, that ~ double the size of Japan or Zimbabwe
