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Re: /real/ programmers...



As Scott Adams put it:

Huh ! In MY days, we had only 1's!

Daniel Feiglin wrote:

> Oh, tush!
>
> How many of you "newbies" ever booted up a PDP 11/40 from the panel
> switches? And that only worked it you had the
> bootstrap board option intalled. Why, it had real diodes on it! And
> (wait for it!) it  ran an new non DEC operating system called UNIX if
> you afford to pay AT & T about $10,000 for a tape. (I asked, back in
> 1976!) For that you needed at least 64Kb of core memory (Yeah, I said
> core memory!) and at least one 2.5 Mb RK05 disk drive, to say nothing of
> a tape. (There may have been a paper tape option, but I don't remember
> ...)
>
> And do any of you /real/programmers recall RSX 11 sysgens?
> SET TTY=/COFFEEBREAK
>
> And if any of you want to start a museum, for a reasonable fee I'll part
> will my first LSI 11 motherboard, hanging on the wall behind me ...
>
> Yuk! Let's get back to pthreads ...
>
> gaal@forum2.org wrote:
>
> > /real/ programmers
> >         dd if=/dev/dsp of=a.out
> > and whistle.
> >
> > --
> > gaal