Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
by CliffStoll on Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:15PM
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Dated? #10 is from a 1980's MOTD message of the day:
All the world's a VAX,
And all the coders merely butchers;
They have their exits and their entrails;
And one int in his time plays many widths,
His sizeof being N bytes. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the Regent's arms.
And then the whining schoolboy, with his Sun,
And shining morning face, creeping like slug
Unwillingly to school.
-- A Very Annoyed PDP-11
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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
by microtherion on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:31PM
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Heh. Getting a response from you must be peak 1990 ;-)
By the time I got started on Usenet "All the world's a VAX" was only in use as a proverbial misconception anymore. At the time, all the world was a Sun Workstation.
Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
by neilv on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:53PM
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Yep, circa 1990, a SPARCstation or Sun-3 running SunOS 4 seemed the place to be, for having most software off the 'net build easily.
I also worked on almost all the other engineering workstation platforms, for porting purposes, but a SPARCstation was my preferred main workstation, overall.
(I was a kid who stumbled upon a dream job. So many expensive toys, so much I could learn, and this cool Internet thing...)