In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/23/2007
at 05:32 PM, Clark Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>My only computer course in college was on an IBM 650 with a 2000 word
>drum and vacuum tubes.
We had a deluxe confiuration; a disk drive and two tape drives, plus
some optional opcodes.
>My personal opinion is that the universities have
>bamboozled the business community into believing that they really
>train people for running data centers.
FWIW I was drafted into teaching one SP course at the Technion and
into taking over an assembler course when the instructor was called up
for active duty. I don't know how common such courses were elsewhere.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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