Brownie points if you know what SPOOL meant. Without resorting to Google-fu.
I'm still a green-screen guy at heart. Give me a raised floor and a bunch of bus and tag pairs, and I'm in heaven. On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 13:17 Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've migrated through several OS worlds over the decades. IBM's > universe had a significant amount of acronyms that required careful > tongue maneuvers to pronounce ... "DASD" was one of the easiest, as was > "ISAM" ["Incredibly Slow Access Method"]. EB-se-dick, a little harder. > Eventually, Unix became essential and I grep-ped and glob-bed, and > struggled with regular expressions about as much as I had to with > partial differential equations. When I retired, I decided to learn how > to read Russian with all the free time I was going to have. Russian was > much easier than Unix. The free time never materialized. > > 73, > > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW > Sparks NV DM09dn > Washoe County > > On 6/11/2018 9:34 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > > If you are not good at deciphering cryptic messages with geek words, > > don't use Linux. > > I do wish it were better, but Linux seems to be steeped in "geekdom > > language" - if you are not educated in the language, you do not > > deserve to be part of our culture. > > Until Linux produces plain text language for errors and such messages, > > it will not be a major player in the computer operating systems. > > Windows has its share of cryptic messages, but at least it is in plain > > text and does not often refer to "gobbledygook" that is only > > understood by Windows geeks. > > I have tried Linux and have been stiffed by questions to the forums > > saying essentially "if you don't understand the language, go away". > > I am not a computer dummy - I understand DOS, but the Linux language > > is a thing unto itself. > > Ubuntu and Linux Mint have reduced the Linux install process > > difficulty, but have not tackled the cryptic messages that can result. > > If you only want to do only email and web surfing, then Linux can work > > well for you, but anything else can be daunting with cryptic requests > > to enter a nonsensical string of commands for "who knows what results" > > and be shamed by the forum geeks who blame you for not understanding > > the language. > > > > 73, > > Don W3FPR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 PA Army MARS, Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
