050209 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> <old-timer-speak>
>> You young sprouts have it easy. When *I* got into computing, 
>> bootstrapping consisted of a half-hour of keying in a binary paper 
>> tape loader into low memory of a machine with a 60 kbyte hard drive 
>> and about 5 kbytes of RAM. And when you were done, the OS consisted of 
>> an assembler that used hexadecimal op codes and a subroutine library.
>> Hey, if it was good enough for John Von Neumann and his friends to 
>> design hydrogen bombs, it was good enough for me. :)
>> </old-timer-speak> 

you mean i'm not the only Gentoo user who remembers Fortran & APL (grin)?

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