24 Apr
2020
24 Apr
'20
6:17 a.m.
On 4/23/20 10:14 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
For me, not only is the miracle that Dave can
resurrect these monsters
decades after they were in service, but that somehow he appears to enjoy
doing it.? Maybe it's due in part that he doesn't have a couple hundred
livid angry users making the phone glow red.
Those days are long past for me. ;) Years ago, I moved entirely into
embedded systems development, where I can reasonably (and indeed, am
expected to) spend a whole day optimizing out a few cycles or a few
bytes. I still do my own systems and network engineering, and
occasionally for others, but I don't like to make a living at it anymore.
I got into DEC machines (PDP-8 and PDP-11, initially) before I was
professionally employed doing anything, in my mid-teen years, so my love
for them runs deep. I've used them "at work" early on, but not for
long, as much of my professional network-wrangler career is UNIX
machines, about 75% Sun, with some DEC and SGI on the side.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA