Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:56, Romanator wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote:
> > > Sridhar wrote:
> >
> > I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no
> >
> > > previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learned rather
> > > easily. <<
> > >
> > > Surely you must realize that you were a very unusual three-year-old. For
> > > one thing, you must have known how to read and spell, as well as how to
> > > use a keyboard. Most three-year-olds can't read and spell at all, or if
> > > at all, not well enough to use a text-based operating system like
> > > MS-DOS. And then, once you start it, what do you do with it? Most
> > > three-year-olds aren't interested in playing with commands at a command
> > > prompt.<g> They want to run Jumpstart Preschool or Reader Rabbit or
> > > Sesame Street. They want to do it the way my granddaughter does: start
> > > the computer; after Windows starts, put the CD into the CD-ROM drive;
> > > the program autostarts; click your way through it; click on whatever
> > > ends it when you're done--the voices tell you what to do. Want to run
> > > something else? Put that CD into the drive and repeat the above.
> > > Computers in 1985, which is probably about when you started, were a lot
> > > different than they are today, and so are operating systems.
> >
> > Sridhar,
> >
> > Is it true that you weren't allowed to use pointy objects like scissors?
> > And, since then, fate had decided you enter the world of software rather
> > than hardware? Ouch!
> >
> > Roman
>
> Yeah, my parents took my scissors away from me just as I was about to
> complete my 100% efficient solar array that would've solved the all the
> world's energy needs.
>
> 16 years later, I _still_ haven't gotten them back :-(
>
> I think I'll go throw a tantrum until I get what I want :-)
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
>
> > Sridhar,
> >
> > Is it true that you weren't allowed to use pointy objects like scissors?
> > And, since then, fate had decided you enter the world of software rather
> > than hardware? Ouch!
> >
> > Roman
>
> Yeah, my parents took my scissors away from me just as I was about to
> complete my 100% efficient solar array that would've solved the all the
> world's energy needs.
>
> 16 years later, I _still_ haven't gotten them back :-(
>
> I think I'll go throw a tantrum until I get what I want :-)
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
The same thing happened to me. However, when I decided to build my first
gas laser, they gave soldering iron on my birthday. However, I was
already in grade 4. This is a true story. :-)
Roman
