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.
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.
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