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On 15/05/2014 1:11 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
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>> On 14/05/2014 3:02 AM, ches...@freeshell.org wrote:
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>>>> On 14/05/2014 1:45 AM, ches...@freeshell.org wrote:
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>>>> you can't get banned from usenet, but only a dozen people use it
>>>
>>> Poor Usenet!
>>
>> At least you don't need a RedFacedTwit account to use it.
>> A lot of ISPs , at least those around here, don't include server access
>> anymore so I don't think many people are even aware of it or what a
>> newsreader is.
>>
>> How many people even know what a DOS CLI is ?
>>
>> If it doesn't use a web GUI window it doesn't exists.
>>
>> Nobody in here but us curmudgeons :-)
>
> CLI? That newfangled thing?
>
> When I started programming, you had to know how to thread
> paper tape into an ASR-33 teletype. Punched cards were a
> move up.

Sheer luxury, we had to cut down trees to make the paper for our tape 
and it was uphill both ways to the forest :-)

When the boot process involved loading the 'microcode' pinboard it was 
quite arcane, the machine code changed . Microcontrollers still allow that.

Nowadays multicore cpus and processors are the big new thing
so the marketing says.
A few decades and a few trillion dollars and a few thousand times 
faster, but not much has changed.
Just make the hamsters run faster without really advancing any concepts 
in programming or distributed processing. Maybe an order of magnitude 
but way less than several orders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Semiconductor_SC/MP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

I am fascinated by the Raspberry Pi and other controllers, soon a $5 
chip with linux. They are the inheritors of a long line of of things 
that actually run the world.
Instead of games and business computers that make virtual worlds :-)