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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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| 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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