The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)

Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by microtherion on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:31PM (#23284770)

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.

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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by neilv on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:53PM (#23285411)

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...)

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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by icedchai on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:05PM (#23288463)

I bought a Sparc 5 back in 1996 or so, from a company going out of business. I felt like a king. Nobody had stuff like that at home back then.

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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by jacobush on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:40PM (#23285740)

Wow... just seeing a post of Cliff Stoll is incredible. I love that TV movie and the book.

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