From: ksh@prl.ufl.edu (Kevin S Ho) Subject: Re: Tractatus Linuxicus Newbius Date: 27 Aug 1993 20:51:39 GMT
In article <1993Aug27.121532.19134@news.mentorg.com>, stuartj@wv.mentorg.com (Stuart John) writes:
|> I took some artistic license with editing...
|>
|> In article <trucken.746375349@exa>, trucken@exa.cs.umn.edu (David Truckenmiller) writes:
|> |> In <CCDB06.7t1@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> jkowalik@gandalf (Yarek Kowalik / LGS) writes:
|> |> >ksh@prl.ufl.edu (Kevin S Ho) writes:
|> |> >: In article <trucken.746023366@milli>, trucken@milli.cs.umn.edu (David Truckenmiller) writes:
|> |> >be done. Like, why not teach some of the jargon to kids, so when they grow up
|> |> >it would become an integrated in their language (if it is not already) and
|> |> >understood that a hard disk is not a floppy in a hard case.
|> |>
|> |> Well, I think that kids already know more than we suspect. :-)
|>
|> The current generation certainly know "Sonic", "Nintendo" and "CD-ROM",
|> but seem to missing out on home micros and the joys of programming in
|> BASIC :-), like when I had a CBM64 and BBC.
Well, I can do basic, but I'd rather do C, and do Linux boxen count as
"home computers"?
C-u 100 :-)
[mindless munching]
KsH