[OT] Re: Real Men

Joshua D. Abraham jabra at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Jan 19 18:57:23 EST 2007


On 19.Jan.2007 05:44PM -0600, paul_cour at verizon.net wrote:

> er,
> 
> what preceded the PDP-11 ?

PDP-10 ?

--josh

> 
> >From: Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com>
> >Date: 2007/01/19 Fri PM 05:03:37 CST
> >To: maddog at li.org
> >Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
> >Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Real Men
> 
> >Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
> >
> >>>>No, No, No....I much prefer arguing issues around arcane languages.
> >>>>
> >>>>What about using SNOBOL? :-)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Ha! Real men write right down on the metal in Assembler...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>You use an assembler??
> >>
> >>Real men program directly in '1's and '0's, and the ones that
> >>have been doing it a long time only use write-once ROMs.....
> >>
> >>
> >And I bet they use switches! Now, wire-wrap and diodes...
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Joshua D. Abraham
Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science
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