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)? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
