Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Nightfox
From : Dr. What
Date : Wed Jan 10 2024 08:18 am

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

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

 Ni> 20+ years behind the times though?

My Freshman year in college was the first year CS majors DIDN'T have to use
punch cards.  That would have been 1983.  Some engineers still had to use them,
though.

And the computer we were on should have been decomissioned at least 5 years
before.  We had at least 5 different terminal types around the computer lab -
each with their own quirks that you needed to learn.

After the first year, they did start to decommission the Univac (finally!), and
moved us to IBM-PCs with Turbo Pascal for our assignments.  And by the time I
graduated, the seniors had their own VAX in the CS building for their use.  So
things were a-changing by then.


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