10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
3:55 a.m.
On Jun 9, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Ian King wrote:
Dave, in truth I spent no little time writing a less harsh response
than I might have, but I feel it is necessary to address his
dismissive attitude toward the realities of vintage systems and
their software, if he wants to play in this pool. It's not the
lack of knowledge - that can be corrected, as I experience every
day in my own life - but what I perceive as the attitude that "it's
not worth knowing" that harshes my mellow. -- Ian
I don't think it's anything to worry about. Most guys his age
think "vintage computer" means a Pentium-4 that's clocked at less
than 2GHz. I've talked to him; he is clueful. He is also local to
me, and I expect I'll be setting him up with some good stuff.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Further, your reluctance to use non-screen-oriented
editors is,
shall we say, 'bad juju' in this community. While I certainly
prefer a screen editor such as vi (and not such as EMACS), I can
easily do ed or TECO as needed, because I MUST in order to work
with truly vintage systems. -- Ian
Please cut the guy some slack, Ian. The OP was Kirn, who is 19.
His idea of "way back" is pretty different from yours or mine.