Jesper de Jong wrote:But you can write C in Eclipse!
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
fred rosenberger wrote:you kids are spoiled today with your fancy IDEs and debuggers. In my day, all we had was printf(), and we LIKED it that way!!!
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:You whippersnappers with your fancy electronic brains! In my day, debugging meant chasing the termites out of the abaqus beads, and a megabyte was something a particularly obnoxious termite might do.
luck, db
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Bear Bibeault wrote: There was no code completion.
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"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
Bear Bibeault wrote:My first IDE:
(pdp-11/40 image)
There was no code completion.
Ryan McGuire wrote:
Bear Bibeault wrote:My first IDE:
(pdp-11/40 image)
There was no code completion.
One of the things I liked about the pdp-11 was that the instruction set lent itself to octal notation, which you can input with one hand on the numeric keypad, as opposed to obnoxious-to-type hexadecimal.
; Add 42 (52 octal) to register 1
062701
000052
(I did have to use Google to remind myself that 06 was ADD, but I did remember that 27 is the auto-increment mode on the Program Counter..)
Have you been taking lessons from Janeice delVecchio?Wendy Gibbons wrote: . . . are you reallly THAT OLD!!! haven't you died yet
Wendy Gibbons wrote:haven't you died yet
Bear Bibeault wrote:
Wendy Gibbons wrote:haven't you died yet
Yeah, thanks for the good wishes.
Koen Aerts wrote:
Bear Bibeault wrote:
Wendy Gibbons wrote:haven't you died yet
Yeah, thanks for the good wishes.
It's a bit like listening to war stories from my grandparents. Fascinating, listen to it for hours, and finding it hard to believe how different things were "back then".
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
Jk Robbins wrote:Great. Now my IT career is being covered in history class. <sigh>
Yes, core memory was a huge advancement over relays or vacuum tubes, so it was high-tech stuff. Now your cellphone has far more computing power than that entire System/360 every dreamed of.
Wendy Gibbons wrote:
Jk Robbins wrote:Great. Now my IT career is being covered in history class. <sigh>
Yes, core memory was a huge advancement over relays or vacuum tubes, so it was high-tech stuff. Now your cellphone has far more computing power than that entire System/360 every dreamed of.
was being covered in a history module in 1987
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
You kids don't appreciate what you have. Your hip grandparents already had jazz, swing (the music, not the GUI toolkit), airplanes and electric lights. Back in _my_ day, grandparents told stories about gas lights and plowing with mule-power.Koen Aerts wrote:
Bear Bibeault wrote:
Wendy Gibbons wrote:haven't you died yet
Yeah, thanks for the good wishes.
It's a bit like listening to war stories from my grandparents. Fascinating, listen to it for hours, and finding it hard to believe how different things were "back then".
Bear Bibeault wrote:There was no code completion.
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:The first hard drive I bought with my own money was an external 20MB SCSI drive. ...It cost $500.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Jk Robbins wrote:Sit back you young whippersnapper and let me tell you about the System/360 that I worked on that had 16K of memory. Not megabytes, kilobytes. And the memory looked like this:
Those wires are the read/write lines. Ah, the good ol' days.
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a bit of art, as a gift, that will fit in a stocking
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