[OT] What holiday is everyone celebrating?

[Vu Pham]

It seems everybody here is luckier than me : all started from Unix - the
standard OS. For me, I started from Dos 3.0 with Edlin :-) as my first
editor for asm86. Then I came to Win 3.0, 3.1 and Workgroup 3.11. Next I
worked with Netware 2.0a up to 4.2 ( I even was an MCNE :-) and Windows Nt4.
Then I started with Slackware as the first *nix OS. I remember how I hated
Linux at that time : just a text screen, not gui - or the gui was not as
convineint as Windows Gui.

But my friend showed me that for Windows NT - although the Admin GUI is very
convennient , but when there is problem, it's pretty difficult for the
adminitrator to do more than what the GUI apps provide. That encouraged me
to learn more about *nix. Then I moved to Sco, Redhat, and Solaris partly
because of customers'requirement, but mostly because of my wanting to learn
more about *nix.

Now, I really *love* *nix.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:47 PM
> To: Linux tips and tricks
> Subject: Re: [OT] What holiday is everyone celebrating?
> 
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> >I was beginning to think that I, too, was the only member of 
> this list 
> >over fifty. In fact, it's kind of scary to think that I'm 
> now closer to 
> >sixty than to fifty.
> >
> >For what it's worth, in college I started out learning Algol on a 
> >Burroughs B5500 & then graduated to an Basic on an RCA Spectra 70. 
> >After finishing school I didn't do much with computers until we 
> >purchased our first for the business -- an Altos 8600 using 
> SCO Xenix. 
> >Since then it's been SCO Xenix, SCO Unix Sys V, SCO Unixware, and, 
> >finally Linux. My Linux odyssey began with Caldera Open 
> Linux eServer 
> >v2.3 (which still is running, by the way), COL eDesktop v2.4 
> and now Debian (including Libranet).
> 
> I'm 61.  My first computer experience was in 1966 on a Bendix 
> G-20 mainframe using FORTRAN and assembly language.  I did 
> some work on the
> GE-235 on G.E. and CEIR time sharing systems, on an XDS 940, 
> and a lot of ALGOL on the Burroughs B-5500.  Next was an IBM 
> 1130 working primarily in FORTRAN and Assembly, then 
> Burroughs Medium Systems (B-2500 -> B-3800) using COBOL, 
> FORTRAN, and BPL (Burroughs Programming Language).
> 
> One of the more interesting jobs I did on the Medium Systems 
> was to debug Burroughs' RJE (Remote Job Entry) system which 
> required (a) getting the source code for RJE and MCP from 
> Burroughs, (b) fixing some communications protocol problems 
> in their RJE handler, (c) patching MCP to properly handle RJE 
> jobs, and (d) sending the fixes back to Burroughs.  After I 
> did that, I
> *NEVER* had any problems getting answers from Burroughs 
> engineering :-).
> 
> I took a four year break from computers between 1976 and 1980 
> to race formula cars full time on the East Coast.  The most 
> sophisticated computer I had then was an HP 97 calculator.
> 
> After running out of money racing, I went to work for Radio 
> Shack in the D.C. area managing a couple of ``X'' departments 
> and a Computer Center in Rockville, Maryland where I got my 
> first *nix experience with Xenix on the Model 16.  One of my 
> customer hired me to be V.P. of their software company, 
> moving me to Seattle in November 1983.  That job lasted until 
> December 1984 when I founded Celestial.
> 
> At Celestial, I've worked with a wide variety of *nix systems 
> including all the SCO flavors, SunOS, Solaris, Dynix/PTX, 
> AIX, HP-UX, and been doing Linux since 1994 or so.  We used 
> Caldera Linux from 1994 through 2002 when we moved everything 
> to SuSE.  Our in-house systems range from a Caldera OpenLinux 
> 1.3 system that handles modems and HylaFAX through SuSE 9.1 
> Professional, FreeBSD, SCO OpenServer, and a couple of Apples 
> running OS X.
> 
> ...
> >PS I remember those acoustic couplers, too. All of 300 baud IIRC!
> 
> I still have a Radio Shack Model 100 with acoustic couplers.  
> It's sitting in the closet next to my HP 97 (unless my wife 
> decided to clean it out).
> 
> Bill
> --
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> (206) 236-1676
> URL: http://www.celestial.com/
> 
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