Since then I have tried Mandrake 8.0, Suse, RedHat 8.0and 9.0 and finally Fedora FC1. I embraced this project and re-discovered my love for Unix-like OS's. In 1998 (still ruinning OS/2 at home - Merlin), I was assigned to a project running on Solaris 8.

Since I had some Unix like experience (DG 8/40, 2/10, Varian v66's ) I was sent to learn AIX admin in 1995 but at that time Windows 3.5 was emergng and I was transferred to suuport this OS. My son used my PC to setup his first BBS in 1984!!! I then moved on to OS/2 and some windows but leaned more towards OS/2. I learned basic on my first PC, a Compaq Deskpro (v80 chip), and developed my billing application using basic. In the 80's I had my own consulting firm and supported many financial customers in the Systems Programming area and make-shift priogramming. There I excelled in process control systems (writing your own OS and commands) and learning the breadth of computers.

My lust for machine control led me into the micro computer world in 1976. In 1972 I started working on IBM 360/65's and 165's (256K memory) and the IBM 360 assembler language which we upgraded to Assembler 'G' ( University of Waterloo - the first cooperative CS and separate CS faculty - 1965).Īlthough I loved assembly language and writing macros, I knew that higher level languages were emerging - Cobol, PL/1, PL/S, Pascal and C).

I developed what we called RORI (roll-in roll-out programming - today it's called paging) The programming was similar to ALGOL but then we graduated to the Uniivac 9300 with 32K of memorry (heaven!!!!) and a 360 assembler like language. I graduated from there to a Univac 1050 (8 K of memory) running the Console exec (my memory fades here a bit - I know there were three execs). I learned the IBM 402 punch card programming (a slab with wires). I have been involved with computers since 1969 (a lot of you were not even born yet).!!!!Ī bit of history. I'll admit that I am 55 (almost) and using Linux.

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