Old farts and new Linux (was: new FC1 install problems)

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 09:08, Edward Croft wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 08:40, T. Ribbrock wrote:
>> Well, I got the impression that especially the (technical) folks
>> who are 30-40 now have more of a tendency to know what computers
>> actually *are*. I'm 35 now and "my generation" was the one that
>> started off on VIC20s (I did), Sinclairs or even self-built
>> Z80/6502 machines. Most of us would have gotten their hands dirty
>> on assembler at some point and also would have been used to the
>> command line right from the start. The younger folks seem to be
>> spoiled by the "GUI-it-all" virus that spread later... ;-) As
>> such, especially the technical folks my age seem to have the
>> openess and knowledge needed to try other stuff.
>>
>> Cheerio,
>
>Oooh, assembler. I keep washing my hands and washing my hands and
> still can't get it off.

Nothing wrong with assembly if you know what you're doing.  I'm quite 
comfortable with it, on an HD63C09EP cpu, an improved clone of the 
moto 6809.

>--
>Edward M. Croft
>Sr. Systems Engineer
>Open Ratings, Inc.
>200 West Street
>Waltham, MA 02451-1121

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