3 Dec
2010
3 Dec
'10
10:50 a.m.
At 02:34 PM 12/2/2010, Tony Duell wrote:
Let me google that for you. Maybe you'll debug something for me someday.
Thank you...
I make the same offer as I've always made. If I receive any personal
e-mail about classic computers, I will respond. The repoly may be 'sorry,
I have never come across that machine' or '$ccperson is the expert on
that machine'. But if you ask about something I have some knowledge off,
I _will_ try to help. Period.
>
"Baby duck syndrome"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What is this?
"Baby Duck Syndrome denotes the tendency for computer users to
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)>"imprint" on
the first system they learn, then judge other systems by their similarity
to that first system. The result is that "users generally prefer systems
similar to those they learned on and dislike unfamiliar systems."[1] The
term may have been inspired by popular understanding of the work,
experiences, and observations of
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Konrad_Lorenz>Konrad Lorenz."
Oh right... I don't think I suffer from that. The first disk OS I used
was not suprisingly CP/M. And yet I find unix much nicer than, say, RT11
of VMS. The first assembly language I learnt was Z80 (and SC/MP at about
the same time), but I find 6809 and PDP11 assembly to be a lot more pleasant.
-tony