> OK I've got to join this p...... contest. I turn 68 this year, and > learned programming in 1959 on an IBM 704 (the hottest iron of that > year). I got into unix with AT&T version 6 (on a PDP-11) so long ago I > can't even remember what year that was. I was a lone voice in the > wilderness then. The rest of the lab (BNL) was Fortran for applications, > machine language for operating systems. Making the Fortran->C > transformation without anyone to ask a question of, was pretty > challenging. > > And speaking of the hippie o/s, did you ever wonder how the internet > ended up without a central controlling authority? Because it was > designed by some almost hippie grad students back in the 60s/70s. > -- > Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Ah yes the good ole daze... when we all knew what "12 edge face up" meant.
