18 Nov
2021
18 Nov
'21
7:19 p.m.
My wife is a college professor (definitely smarter than me) and has a
tutoring business on the side.? Some of the kiddies are indeed idiots,
but as they typically never want to pay for anything, we don't do
business with them (and for other reasons).
Some of them are simply misinformed or uninformed.? Among other things,
I tutor shell scripting.
1. You should see the lightbulb go off when they realize what they've
been missing
2. I get paid either way
Not a bad gig.
A real treat is when I get to tutor assembler.? It doesn't get any
better than that, but it's only once or twice a year!
On 11/18/21 12:28 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
? While I like "no undies" as much as the next guy, those guys are
idiots.
????????? -Dave
On 11/18/21 12:27 PM, Keith Halewood wrote:
I?ve encountered Linux ?experts? in the past who
have, without even
trying, convinced me that they?ve never seen a shell command line.
All UI and no undies, so to speak.
*From:*owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
*On Behalf Of *Thomas DeBellis
*Sent:* 18 November 2021 17:21
*To:* hecnet at Update.UU.SE
*Subject:* Re: [HECnet] PyDECnet setup
You know, I like "primordial Unix" more than "early Unix".? Of
course, that then leaves the question of what to call the early
PDP-11 releases.? Upper Devonian?
I followed the resurrection of PDP-7 based Unix at the computer
museum and, for some strange reason, found the assembler based stuff
of more interest than the latest Ubuntu glitz.
Glitz really leaves me cold if not annoyed.
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??? On 11/18/21 12:10 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
??? That would be quite early indeed. :-) PDP-7 Unix was fairly short
lived (a year or two?) and was left behind for a long time once they
got the first PDP-11 system at BTL.? I would humbly submit that that
might be more properly referred to as,
??? "primordial Unix".
???? ??????? - Dan C.
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??????? On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:57 AM Thomas
DeBellis<tommytimesharing at gmail.com>
<mailto:tommytimesharing at gmail.com>? wrote:
??????? [snip]
??????? 'Early' Unix to me means before it got ported off the PDP-7.
[snip]