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Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out
- From: Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:42:30 -0400
- Message-id: <20041013104230.GA15437@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:08:08AM -0500, Danny Sauer wrote:
> Allen wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out' on Wed, Oct 13 at 23:00:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:26:07PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> > > I bought my first computer, an IMSAI 8080, in Nov. 1976. This was a
>
> I was born in Nov, 1976. :) You had it easy - do you know how hard I've
> had to look to find Heathkit stuff, decades after they stopped making
> anything? And here, you could just go to a store or mail-order parts!
>
> Luckily, we had to build small computers as part of that whole Computer
> Engineering thing. Hooray for school teaching practical skills. Heh.
> Yah, "useful". Sigh.
I was born in November of 1982. I'm going to be 22 :(
>
> > Heh, my LAN class teacher was an Assembler coder for 22 years. He would
> > write code for Motorola 68K Processors and do it all on UNIX Terminals.
> > Bastard, he actually got to do those things. Not that writing Assembler is
> > something I'm thinking about doing, I hate coding, but spending all
> > nighters with your friends coding and having fun, It's something I'll
> > probably never do.
>
> Pic Micro chips are kinda fun to play with, and you can make them do
> actual useful stuff. If you wanna play with assembler in a semi-instant
> gratification way, check them out.
>
Cool, I'll look it up. I like Assmebler for some reaosn. I've writtena
program in C, C++, Java, Jva script, PERL, VB, QBASIC, and I have looked
over Assembler code before. Looks like it would take a little work, but I
have NO coding skills. I made myself write one program in those languages,
mainly so I could have a basic understanding of them. I know Binary and Hex
too ;)
> > And now a question:
> >
> > Why is an Xterm called that after a Terminal when a Terminal is where
> > something ends.... What were they thinking calling it that. Isn't it
> > properly called a console?
> [...]
>
> If you have a "terminal server" with a bunch of serial lines running
> from the server to workstations, the "terminals" are indeed at the
> end of the line. A console is an arbitrary display, IMHO. In X, your
> console is where the logs go (no interaction), and the terminal is the
> thing you interact with.
>
> --Danny, accurately dating himself, now
Ahhh! Now I see it. So I'm playing at my terminal then? lol.
> Allen wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out' on Wed, Oct 13 at 23:00:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:26:07PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> > > I bought my first computer, an IMSAI 8080, in Nov. 1976. This was a
>
> I was born in Nov, 1976. :) You had it easy - do you know how hard I've
> had to look to find Heathkit stuff, decades after they stopped making
> anything? And here, you could just go to a store or mail-order parts!
>
> Luckily, we had to build small computers as part of that whole Computer
> Engineering thing. Hooray for school teaching practical skills. Heh.
> Yah, "useful". Sigh.
I was born in November of 1982. I'm going to be 22 :(
>
> > Heh, my LAN class teacher was an Assembler coder for 22 years. He would
> > write code for Motorola 68K Processors and do it all on UNIX Terminals.
> > Bastard, he actually got to do those things. Not that writing Assembler is
> > something I'm thinking about doing, I hate coding, but spending all
> > nighters with your friends coding and having fun, It's something I'll
> > probably never do.
>
> Pic Micro chips are kinda fun to play with, and you can make them do
> actual useful stuff. If you wanna play with assembler in a semi-instant
> gratification way, check them out.
>
Cool, I'll look it up. I like Assmebler for some reaosn. I've writtena
program in C, C++, Java, Jva script, PERL, VB, QBASIC, and I have looked
over Assembler code before. Looks like it would take a little work, but I
have NO coding skills. I made myself write one program in those languages,
mainly so I could have a basic understanding of them. I know Binary and Hex
too ;)
> > And now a question:
> >
> > Why is an Xterm called that after a Terminal when a Terminal is where
> > something ends.... What were they thinking calling it that. Isn't it
> > properly called a console?
> [...]
>
> If you have a "terminal server" with a bunch of serial lines running
> from the server to workstations, the "terminals" are indeed at the
> end of the line. A console is an arbitrary display, IMHO. In X, your
> console is where the logs go (no interaction), and the terminal is the
> thing you interact with.
>
> --Danny, accurately dating himself, now
Ahhh! Now I see it. So I'm playing at my terminal then? lol.
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