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33 | LawrenceDoliveiro | 1 | <i>Short version:</i> |
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3 | First on DIGITAL;<br> | ||
4 | Then on Macintosh for years;<br> | ||
5 | Learning Linux now. | ||
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7 | <i>Longer version:</i> | ||
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9 | First on RSTS/E,<br> | ||
10 | PDP-11 tricks--<br> | ||
11 | And then came the VAX. | ||
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13 | VMS was fun.<br> | ||
14 | 32 bits--much more room.<br> | ||
15 | Terminals were slow. | ||
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17 | Microcomputers.<br> | ||
18 | Why so cool? Bitmapped displays!<br> | ||
19 | Just blew me away. | ||
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21 | Macs were beautiful:<br> | ||
22 | Quickdraw, Toolbox, Finder, fonts...<br> | ||
23 | Bitch to program, though. | ||
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25 | Heard about Linux.<br> | ||
26 | Took a while to see the point;<br> | ||
27 | So much power--free. | ||
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29 | Twenty-five years on,<br> | ||
30 | I'm still learning every day.<br> | ||
31 | Will it never end? :) | ||
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38 | LawrenceDoliveiro | 34 | Contributed to (among other things): [3DES] AppleTalk AuthoritativeNameServer BlockDevice ChrootNotes CompactDisc ComposeKey ComputationallyInfeasible ControllingTerminal CorporateProgramming [Delegation] DigitalCertificate DotFile [DVD] [dvdauthor] [DVDVideo] [DVDVideoTerminology] [FFmpeg] [Fuzz] [IEC] [IEEE] [ITU-T] HereStrings LegoMindstorms LinuxHistory LinuxIsNotWindows LocaleName LocalLoop [LowCostLinuxPC] MarketFragmentation [MeetingTopics.2007-02-26] MicrosoftCompatible [MPEGTerminology] MythicalManMonth [NXTFilesystemNotes] OomKiller ProcessRelationships [Redundancy] SealedBonnetFallacy SpacesInPathNames SpamAssassinNotes [SRV] VendorLockIn VeryImpossible [XSessionErrors] |
33 | LawrenceDoliveiro | 35 | |
36 | Feel free to treat my contributions as licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nz/]. | ||
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