[OT] Re: Real Men

[mike miller]

PDP-8

Are you talking about real men or real old men?
My first computer was a CDC3500.

Mike Miller
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua D. Abraham" <jabra at ccs.neu.edu>
To: <paul_cour at verizon.net>
Cc: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [OT] Re: Real Men


> 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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