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How many hours did you "invested" to "master" your linux?
Leee:
What Rich said, only for me it's been even longer. :)
PDP-8:
Cliche' but it's not the destination, it's the journey. :)
Over the years I have come to a conclusion that most of us came to computer well past the mini<>micro processor revolution. The "micro" culture, where pushing apps, or someone else's idea of what a computer should be carefully shepherded users into that demographic.
You were not taught to think for yourself - just buy into someone else's vi$ion.
I'm still a total NOOB, but I started with the usual Commodore's and whatnot simply due to finances, but I had exposure to mini's. DEC PDP's in particular. Later I could afford things like COHERENT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_%28operating_system%29
Guess what? Even before that, only a total fool would run ATT Unix, which was totally unsupported prior to divestiture, and had college-kids from Berkeley and elsewhere fooling around with it. NO BUSINESS of any repute would stake their computer center on that. Only DEC authorized oem OS (Cutler's RSX / VMS etc) thank you very much.
So we've been down this road before.
What amazes me, is that despite the galaxian advances in speed and memory storage, that for home users, things like simple flat-file text isn't explored as a viable use-case now with just simple *nix. It freaking flies - even if your shell scripts are total dogs! (like mine).
Just sayin' - I don't need a glorified "app" to show me the date. Just type date, and there it is. :) But that doesn't make marketing sense - convince the people that they are stupid, and open wallet....
Which brings us to how much I love TC (and others obviously). Maybe because the promise of *nix was to think for yourself, adapt solutions to fit your own situation, and not those of others. But that was 1970's think. :) I can't let go.
My rant over...
Sashank999:
I have 2 tinycore distros on my Laptop - x86 and x86_64
And hence each distro took approximately 12 hrs of setting up all frugal install, compiletc, firefox, make, gcc, glibc, wifi, firmware, python3, grub2 (with grub2 taking the most time :P ).
So a whole day took me to setup 2 versions of tinycore on my Laptop.
xor:
my mother tongue is a foreign language,
but even google translate translated it so well;
i like this post :)
--- Quote from: PDP-8 on June 26, 2020, 05:26:44 PM ---Cliche' but it's not the destination, it's the journey. :)
Over the years I have come to a conclusion that most of us came to computer well past the mini<>micro processor revolution. The "micro" culture, where pushing apps, or someone else's idea of what a computer should be carefully shepherded users into that demographic.
You were not taught to think for yourself - just buy into someone else's vi$ion.
I'm still a total NOOB, but I started with the usual Commodore's and whatnot simply due to finances, but I had exposure to mini's. DEC PDP's in particular. Later I could afford things like COHERENT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_%28operating_system%29
Guess what? Even before that, only a total fool would run ATT Unix, which was totally unsupported prior to divestiture, and had college-kids from Berkeley and elsewhere fooling around with it. NO BUSINESS of any repute would stake their computer center on that. Only DEC authorized oem OS (Cutler's RSX / VMS etc) thank you very much.
So we've been down this road before.
What amazes me, is that despite the galaxian advances in speed and memory storage, that for home users, things like simple flat-file text isn't explored as a viable use-case now with just simple *nix. It freaking flies - even if your shell scripts are total dogs! (like mine).
Just sayin' - I don't need a glorified "app" to show me the date. Just type date, and there it is. :) But that doesn't make marketing sense - convince the people that they are stupid, and open wallet....
Which brings us to how much I love TC (and others obviously). Maybe because the promise of *nix was to think for yourself, adapt solutions to fit your own situation, and not those of others. But that was 1970's think. :) I can't let go.
My rant over...
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jazzbiker:
Hi, PDP-8!
Thanks for Your essays.
Regards
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