Re: [PLUG] The Big Hack: How China used a tiny chip to generate ridiculous replies

["Keith C. Perry" <kperry@daotechnologies.com>]

Not sure I agree...  No one has a mainframe at home and even during that time so there was only going to be but so much intimacy with the system.  As least we had the '70's and 80's systems- From Timex/Sinclairs to Panasonics to Ti's to Commodores.

Back then even though we weren't building computers per se, we were building the electronics (I/O) and peripherals for them.  People had more hardware knowledge.  That certainly lead to the days of loading dos (and later windows) on the system **you** build in the first part of the '90's.

Now, building a computer is seen as only something that specialists do.  Its not the norm.  We're going to have a generation of computer folks who have never built or even seen the inside of a computer or any low voltage device.  That is a problem.

Even on the software front, too many "programmers" just grab libraries and code from the net.  How many do that **before** flow charting and constructing their solutions with pseudo code or prototypes to see if they want to or should use an existing library?  How many of these programmers fit their solutions around the code they find in the wild versus finding the bits that will fit **their** solution?

We can certainly blame IBM for being too closed on the PS/2 line.  Their systems were not user friendly and made going with anything else an easy decision.  Things like microchannel were a horror and if they didn't have the ego of being "Big Blue" they might have learned that lesson before they found out the hard way.  :D

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----- Original Message -----
From: "brent saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 4:27:23 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] The Big Hack: How China used a tiny chip to generate ridiculous replies

On 10/5/18 4:24 PM, Keith C. Perry wrote:
> Before or after Microsoft though?  *double wink*
> 


oh, i was referring to IBM big-iron/mainframe with leased time, so
before MS.

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