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[brian AT bruns.com]

In my day we only had 1's and 0's and sometimes we didn't even have
the 1's! ;-)

I learned C on an Altos system III box (not sure the exact model, I
never actually saw the thing).  Later I owned an IBM RT of my very own
purchased second hand from the university.  Oh, the thrill of my very
first root account!

Brian

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:51:12 -0700, Michael Peppler wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 08:25, Lowden, James K wrote:
> > > From: Thompson, Bill D (London) [mailto:bill_d_thompson AT ml.com]
> > > Sent: April 13, 2004 9:04 AM
> > > 
> > > I taught myself C on an IBM RT PC 6150 (anyone else remember 
> > > those ?) some 17 years ago. 
> > 
> > Sure I remember them.  Never used one, though.
> 
> Same here - first Unix box was a Sun 386i...
>  
> > The language evolves, for sure.  I remember in 1994 I was porting
> some
> > VMS C to C++ on what they called "Daytona", later known as NT 3.5. 
> > The C I knew was K&R, and I couldn't believe it when I found
structs
> > being copied by assignment (instead of memcpy).  It earned me a
> > "welcome to the '90s" from my team mates. 
> 
> :-)
> 
> I remember that feature getting added to the MS-DOS C compilers in
the
> mid 80s. For me it was the reverse of going from pseudo-ansi C in
1989
> to K&R on the Sun box (which meant that I installed gcc as soon as I
> could...)
> 
> The weirdest C compiler I ever used was included in the Waterloo Port
> OS
> that I used for a few years in the mid-80s (Waterloo Port was a
> micro-kernel network OS that could host MS-DOS in a "DOS-BOX" similar
> to
> what OS/2 did).
> 
> Michael
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