Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!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 08:15:00 -0600 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net zLJHAnfWTphNJAHugQ01YgA+DFWPpFxZ7yURbOkjrS/MgL2zUg Cancel-Lock: sha1:5ku3CxkzhZi5iqxwlPty+dEISjg= 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:4480 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594817 sci.physics:833252 On 09/29/2021 07:13 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 29/09/2021 12:31, 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. >> > The only language I was ever taught, was FORTRAN > > > I taught myself BASIC, ASSEMBLER, C, PHP, JavaScript, SQL..a smattering > of PASCAL, C++, Shell. Rust looks like the next one to look at, if I > have time. FORTRAN was the only one I was formally taught in '65. BASIC was used at Dartmouth in '64 but that was about it. My wife went to SUNY Albany before transferring to a real school. They had a CDC so she learned some weird language that isn't extant.