[KDE/Mac] Upgrade to 4.13.3 in Macports
Ian Wadham
iandw.au at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 12:08:36 UTC 2014
On 04/10/2014, at 12:22 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On 20141003 14:44, Ian Wadham wrote:
>> Nah! I used to program real machines back then… :-)
>
> Oh, you're *that* old? :)))
76… :-)
> In Fortran, I suppose? ;)
> PDP-11 or Vax?
I predate the PDP-11 by 4-5 years. My first language (in
1963) was a thing called Ferranti Autocoder, which was in
between machine language and assembler.
When I started my first computer job in 1964, I learned
Fortran II, which was the only widely-available higher
level language at the time. The compiler I used ran on
a machine that had only 8k 12-bit words of memory.
I also wrote my first device driver for that machine, in
assembly language of course.
I did not start programming PCs until after I retired, in
1998. Up till then I had programmed everything from
mainframes to minicomputers… :-) I have lost count
of the number of higher level languages, assembly
languages, text editors, source-code control systems
and operating systems I have worked in.
To me a "real" machine is one that has more than one
user, preferably 1,000 or more… :-)
All the best, Ian W.
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