Run-Level 1

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sun Sep 26 21:01:58 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 14:28 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 26 September 2010 08:07, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I got lost when gosub, goto and line numbers went by the wayside. I wuz
> > just getting the hang of it, too. So, I took a stiff drink and decided
> > I'd just use the damn computer. :) Ric
> 
> That gave a good chuckle. Thanks! I know how you feel - I often feel
> the same way. I'm a skilled support guy and can design and build large
> complex systems, but my programming skills are so out-of-date now that
> I feel like a fossil. I was happy in BASIC and could handle Fortran
> and TuboPascal, but anything more recent just won't seem to stick in
> my head.

That wireless thing scares the hell outame. Well, so does DHCP. We
didn't HAVE those niceties back in the day. Just gimmie good
old /etc/hosts & resolv.conf and let me put it that way ~I~ want it.
<sniffs> I still pine for cp/m and would dearly like to see how it would
run re-compiled on a 64bit machine with 4 gigs of memory. It would
mortally scream, huh?! :) Ric
  

-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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