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Re:The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives by pjmlp on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:41AM (#36859206)
I had something like that, that is how I upgraded myself from a UNIX zealot into a Xerox PARC one, as I discovered an alternative universe.

Additionaly the campus library was a treasure trove from computing books all the way back in time, and many of us dived into them.

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Re:The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives by hinkley on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:48PM (#36867441)
The distributed computing class had a history of distributed computing component.

But it was an elective, and as I found once I got into the real world, one that most people either opted out of or didn't have the option to take. I spend way too much time providing Cliff's Notes to a class I took almost thirty years ago.

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