On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Daniel "Cheez" Brown wrote:
>Did your steam-powered difference engine run VMS? Mine did. *ugh*
umm, no. actually, we had to code our own OS first thing every morning,
in Algol58!
Ken
>;-)
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>On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Ken Williams wrote:
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>> On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Anton J Aylward wrote:
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>> >Back in the days I was still hacking V7 kernels, I
>>
>> that was right after i got my first computer...a steam-powered
>> Difference Engine with a coal-fired boiler.
>>
>> ---[snip]---
>>
>> >Aesthetically, I find 'salvation thru suffering' a
>> >philosophically unsound precept, along with 'baptism
>> >by fire'. However, my observation is that these are
>> >certainly ways of accelerating th learning process,
>> >so long as you are willing to tolerate the attrition
>> >rate. Could we produce larger numbers slower?
>> >I don't know.
>>
>> i have to disagree. all the liberal arts degrees floating around are bad
>> enough. no need to make CS degrees just as easy to get. we need quality,
>> not numbers.
>>
>> >/anton
>> >
>> >
>> >## Reply End ##
>> >
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>> Ken Williams
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