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Article #620707Re: Nostalgia
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:54
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:54
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On Wed, 2018-02-28, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes: >>On Tue, 2018-02-27, Peter Flass wrote: >>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: >>... >>>> (Not that I would mind such a discussion. I'd like to know e.g. how >>>> programming was affected by sitting at a slow serial terminal in the >>>> 1980s.) >>> >>> Or a card reader in the '60s. >> >>That too, but I'm personally more interested in the time frame when >>tools I use today were created: the Unix shells, C compilers, >>vi/Emacs, troff ... > > Card readers were still being used into the 1980s, well after > the creation of the programs you mention.... I know that, but it's irrelevant. I should have been more precise: I'm not just interested in a time frame, but a certain working environment. In the same way I'm not (in this context) interested in what people did with home computers at the time. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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