[KLUG Advocacy] A user leaves....

[Robert G. Brown]

>> > > I believe the author of the article has had almost exclusive
>> > I'll buy that, and I believe that makes up the majority of computer
>> > users in this day and age.  Those of us with multi-decade experience
>> > with mainframes are in the extreme minority.
>> I also buy that as well.  Hey, Bruce are you refering to us "older
>> fahrt's" as being like dinosaurs ... almost extinct?  ;>))
>Well . . .    :-)
There weren't that many of us in any case.
Back in my dinosaur days, most computer USERS were programmers. If you
really wanted to do something, you write the code for it, and used what
you wrote.

>I have four more years before I can claim three decades of working on
>mainframes (like Bob), but I started using Linux three years before Bob.
>(and that's the most important stat IMO ;)
That's probably right, time served on the current technology is fairly 
important. I only started using Linux in April of 1997, but this is about
my third go-round with UNIX systems. My first was in 1985... AT&T UNIX,
in their 6300 box, and larger machines. I remeber learning vi on that thing,
and WATCHING the guy from AT&T install the system (42 3.5 inch diskettes,
which he took with him when the 3 1/2 hour install was done).

People who complain about interfaces and interoperability would have loved
THAT machine! :)

>Much more of this, and we'll have to "take it to advocacy", 
>oh wait - nevermind ...    :-)
Right, we're HERE already!
							Cheers!
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