Linux is KING - Couldn't be hacked - Mac, Vista went down inflames

[tom]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, bruce wrote:

> i recall my 1st use of a time share on the local university's machine..
>
> my 7th grade math teach was taking colleges courses, in like 1972.. and she
> had access to a tele-type machine with the dialup phone couple hooked to the
> machine...
>
> the machine created rollup punched out paper spools that we had written our
> "basic" programs on....
>
> i thought punch cards were a step up when i got into college later on!
>
> i say all this as i cruise on a 4G-Mem/250G-Drive/17" laptop on a fast
> wireless network!
>
>
> my god i'm old!!!
>
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Not really. I know two oldsters who saw the transition from assember to 
FORTRAN et al. One of them (who got out of computing as a profession early 
on) had difficulties  wrapping his head around macroassemblers, or at 
least that is what my brother who knows that individual better reports.