Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:07:04 -0600 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net bdF69jXKxNj2EMMI3fUVfAbKz4On3Sw3Ytn2Ryg4bCxz3b0Vjg Cancel-Lock: sha1:fKia4VqjcKWpKTEuowWfgEVEZNQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4478 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594815 sci.physics:833250 On 09/29/2021 05:31 AM, chrisv wrote: > Clutterfreak wrote: > >> So Commodore 64, it looks like, was already "vintage" in 1989. After I >> acquired the Commodores I began frequenting a computer assignment store >> that sold people's old and new stuff and kept 30% of the money and gave >> 70% to owners. It was a heaven for "vintage" parts, systems, manuals, >> books, everything. > > Cool! > >> I had found a funky half-finished C manual there in >> German coming with two disks for Commodore. That's how I learned C. In >> school everybody used Fortran in science depts and PL-1 in business depts. > > My college programming classes used Pascal. EE curriculum. > I loved Pascal. The University of Maine used it for a didactic language and many of the new engineering hires used it. I made some bucks writing dll's so Pascal could talk to real world instrumentation, robotic arms, and so forth. The original, pure design by Wirth was characterized as 'a computer language only good for telling itself secrets' .