Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Dr. What
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Jan 09 2024 06:35 am

-=> Dr. What wrote to Nightfox <=-

 DW> Colleges are often behind the times on techology.  Mostly due to money.

 And tenured professors. I recall having CS professors telling what it
 was like in the "Real World", when I was finishing up my classes (and
 coding in the real world). What they remembered wasn't what I was
 experiencing.

 DW> When I got to college, my classes were on a Univac 1100/80 and during
 DW> crunch time, the computer could actually lose your parameters between
 DW> the main program and the subroutine.  Very frustrating - but got you to
 DW> not wait until crunch time to do your assignment.

 I took an assembler class on a VAX that had 80 students and 8 inbound
 ports. 4 were hard-wired to terminals in a lab, the other 4 went into a
 dial-up modem pool. I learned to be a night owl and learned to love
 coffee that semester. I don't remember much of VAX assembler, but still
 stay up late and love coffee.   :)

 DW> For those of who worked on systems who's memory (RAM and Disk) were
 DW> measured in K, we have a habit of asking those questions.

 QEMM and Memmaker come to mind - the time spent trying to eek out a
 couple of more K on the BBS art part and parcel of the '80s and '90s
 for me...



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