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In comp.editors Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:
> 
> My history is that I cut my teeth on IBM assembly, cobol, fortran 77, etc.,
> so I grew up on PDP11, DEC/VMS, SunOS, Solaris, etc., well before my first
> real Linux (Redhat) & then Centos & Ubuntu, so I agree Linux is important.
> 
I wrote my first program on punch card... for a IBM (maybe a 340?) and the lab
had half the punchers(?) from honeywell, which, of course had different
character set, Fun!.
And then the usual as you but avoided SunOs and SOlaris and went with Xenix
and HP-UX and of course CP/M and DOS. I installed my first Linux (Yggdrasil,
15 or so Floppy) on a Compaq Presario(I think) with a Massive 10MB HD!
Than I bought a RedHat box and kept with it, so Fedora Core and Fedora now
(KDE). I haven't used Windows for work for almost 30 years, so no ulcers.

[snip]

Thanks for your work here...

G