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 19:48:26 -0600 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net G3sAHFBZJ/sv/orbyrAzBgsPZGs/Sn9opuWvPC7v45FYO6+P2K Cancel-Lock: sha1:1taRuWHmWvsdYv3pAT7Ty8Gio6Q= 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:4493 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594854 sci.physics:833295 On 09/29/2021 08:09 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 29/09/2021 15:02, rbowman wrote: >> I learned FORTRAN IV on an IBM System/360 Model 30. It had 32K of >> core, real core, and the programs were submitted on Hollerith cards. A >> 64 was a real step up. > > I think I learnt on an Elliott - I never actually saw the computer. > We wrote programs on paper tape using a flexowriter, and got the results > on fanfold from a line printer a week later at the next class. > > The next step for me was a CP/M Sharp MZ80 machine,with a built in > screen and keyboards. And floppy disk drives. 1980 that was. > > the rapid turn round of code to program convinced me that computers > might actually be usable after all. > > > I wasn't impressed by the 360 and it's peripherals that looked like refrigerators. After I graduated I did hardware design. Ultimately TTL let to microprocessors and whne I had something I could wirewrap up on the kitchen table I got interested. Even then I lived on the hardware edge, ion concentration meters, semiconductor sputtering systems, environmental chamber controls, aircraft fuel measurement and management systems, and so forth. It wasn't until my current job that I did anything with a UI other than panel buttons and switches. Just as well since I suck at UX. If you can't do it from Konsole, it ain't worth doing.