21 Sep
2004
21 Sep
'04
3:24 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
A big reason for the techies and nerds was so they
could do
programming without being constrained by time limits. And what did they
programs? GAMES!
Well, to give just one data point, not me: when I first learned how to
program at the age of 7, in PDP-11 assembly on my first home computer,
Soviet BK0010, I did NOT write any games. My first program, although
it was not on the BK0010 but on its successor, BK0011, was an operating
system. So I guess I was destined from the very beginning to be an OS
guy. (What am I doing now, 18 years later? Maintaining 4.3BSD-Quasijarus,
an operating system. And it's for VAX, which is not that far away from
PDP-11, my first instruction set.)
MS