* Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [ ... ] > > > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > > long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these > > levels that all of you are at? > > > > Just curious... > > Well, as for me, I wrote my first computer program in 1969, and we all > used puchcards and paper tape and printouts, as well as console entry > switches on the computer itself. We programmed in Assembly Language, > FORTRAN, PL/I, and some people used a new, state-of-the-art experimental > language called Basic, which actually ran on an interactive terminal (a > 10 character-per-second teletype that also accepted paper tape).
I can top that by a couple of years, since I started in 1965, but didn't have the pleasure of working with Unix, since I shifted into psychology (I'm now an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, and I won't explain because the explanation is proportionately as long as the label). I'd hardly consider myself a hacker, but I guess it's all relative. One of the things I particularly enjoy about this list is that relatively-unlearned guys like me have an opportunity to offer help to someone else. If you've had to solve a problem, the odds are that someone else will shortly have the same problem. You help them with it, and get to look like a genius. Just for the record, I encountered Windows 1.0 at work, hated it, and haven't used it willingly since, unless you count having to install it so OS/2 could deal with M$-centric software. Cheers Cam -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]