On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:58 -0500, James Dio wrote: > I most certainly do not. > > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:14 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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)? > >
That must be why you top post. :P I have to admit I never learned APL, though I knew Fortran very well, and I remember TOS and DOS and that was before Micro Soft was formed. -- Brian Beattie LFS12947 | "Honor isn't about making the right choices. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It's about dealing with the consequences." www.beattie-home.net | -- Midori Koto -- [email protected] mailing list
