From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 03:44:51 GMT
In article <1993Jul9.105612.7134@doug.cae.wisc.edu> calica@cae.wisc.edu (Carlo James Calica) writes:
>In article <SCT.93Jul9160246@ascrib.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
>>
>>> Does anyone out there remember the kinds of things that used to be
>>> accomplished back in the days of the Commodore 64, Apple ][, etc?
>>> Remember when we only had 64K in the whole machine? Remember when
>>> a processor ran at a whopping 1MHz? Anyone remember 88K floppies?
>>
>>You had it lucky, mate. When I were a lad, we had to make do with a
>>ZX81 with 1K of ram shared between the (barely) operating system,
>>video buffer and applications - and you could run Chess on it. Now
>>*that* is an achievement.
>>
>Oh no here we go.... Well I remember the days before punch cards where you
>had to program your computer with switches. Ahh those were the days. :-)
A real programmer doesn't even need software: he/she should be able to
control any hardware with just a paper clip and some static electricity :-)