Re: Heroes ???
"Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > Right-on John! Everyone who wants to blame us older programmers and > the pioneers who came before us for the Y2K problems (not to mention > the problem with UNIX dates in 30 years or so). Please remember we and > they were working with slow tiny machines with little disk storage and > less memory. I started programming on an IBM 1130 with 16KB of main > memory and a massive 30MB disk pack drive and we had two, count 'em > two, disk packs we could interchange! Every bit was precious. Well in ma day, we ad tuh wuk int mittle oh road..... No, but seriously, if we're reminiscing, the first commercial box I worked on was a Fortune running UNIX with a 5Mb disk. That held UNIX, DBASIC, and all the apps you wanted. When they brought out the 10Mb version, we just sat round it wondering what on earth we were going to put on the other 5Mb!! Argh, those were the days when men were men, and disks were... smaller than memory is today! :-) I also remember however having 'discussions' with my first boss about how UNIX was the OS of the future. He just didn't get it! Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |//////// /| | http://www.informix.com http://www.informixhandbook.com |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| | |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| | |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 1900 |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+
"Mark D. Stock" wrote: > > "Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > > > Right-on John! Everyone who wants to blame us older programmers and > > the pioneers who came before us for the Y2K problems (not to mention > > the problem with UNIX dates in 30 years or so). Please remember we and > > they were working with slow tiny machines with little disk storage and > > less memory. I started programming on an IBM 1130 with 16KB of main > > memory and a massive 30MB disk pack drive and we had two, count 'em > > two, disk packs we could interchange! Every bit was precious. > > Well in ma day, we ad tuh wuk int mittle oh road..... > > No, but seriously, if we're reminiscing, the first commercial box I > worked on was a Fortune running UNIX with a 5Mb disk. That held UNIX, > DBASIC, and all the apps you wanted. When they brought out the 10Mb > version, we just sat round it wondering what on earth we were going to > put on the other 5Mb!! > > Argh, those were the days when men were men, and disks were... smaller > than memory is today! :-) > > I also remember however having 'discussions' with my first boss about > how UNIX was the OS of the future. He just didn't get it! > Does he work for Microsoft now??? <G> -- John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith USA #include std_disclaimer.h /* These are my opinions, not my company's opinion */
"Carlson@WHSmith" wrote: > > "Mark D. Stock" wrote: > > > > "Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > > > > > Right-on John! Everyone who wants to blame us older programmers and > > > the pioneers who came before us for the Y2K problems (not to mention > > > the problem with UNIX dates in 30 years or so). Please remember we and > > > they were working with slow tiny machines with little disk storage and > > > less memory. I started programming on an IBM 1130 with 16KB of main > > > memory and a massive 30MB disk pack drive and we had two, count 'em > > > two, disk packs we could interchange! Every bit was precious. > > > > Well in ma day, we ad tuh wuk int mittle oh road..... > > > > No, but seriously, if we're reminiscing, the first commercial box I > > worked on was a Fortune running UNIX with a 5Mb disk. That held UNIX, > > DBASIC, and all the apps you wanted. When they brought out the 10Mb > > version, we just sat round it wondering what on earth we were going to > > put on the other 5Mb!! > > > > Argh, those were the days when men were men, and disks were... smaller > > than memory is today! :-) > > > > I also remember however having 'discussions' with my first boss about > > how UNIX was the OS of the future. He just didn't get it! Yeah I was working on Prime's when the Fortune systems came out. I suggested to my boss that we get one or two and port our system (heavy duty marketing data analysis and database package) to UNIX since it looked like UNIX would be the future. He said that UNIX was just a fad, the Fortune box was based on older technology and that Prime's advanced architecture was the wave of the future. If our clients needed a smaller box to run on we were starting a project to port the the new Prime "Rabbit". How wrong can one guy be? > Does he work for Microsoft now??? <G> Art S. Kagel
"Mark D. Stock" wrote: > > > > Well in ma day, we ad tuh wuk int mittle oh road..... > > > > No, but seriously, if we're reminiscing, the first commercial box I > > worked on was a Fortune running UNIX with a 5Mb disk. That held UNIX, > > DBASIC, and all the apps you wanted. When they brought out the 10Mb > > version, we just sat round it wondering what on earth we were going to > > put on the other 5Mb!! > > > > Argh, those were the days when men were men, and disks were... smaller > > than memory is today! :-) > > > > I also remember however having 'discussions' with my first boss about > > how UNIX was the OS of the future. He just didn't get it! > > Which flavor? ;-) -- Compliments of QueriX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QueriX 4GL Compilers are Informix 4GL Compatible, and Connection to other RDBMS such as Oracle. Hydra 4GL Compiler (Compatible with I4GL) Compile once, run everywhere Phoenix Windows GUI. (Front End to 4GL) Chimera Java GUI The only GUI you will ever need... (Front End to 4GL) Arachne Web Technology (Front End to 4GL on the Web) For more details visit: http://www.querix.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------