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Dated? #10 is from a 1980's MOTD message of the day: All the world's a VAX, And all the coders merely butchers; They have their exits and their entrails;
by CliffStoll 6y ago
Dated? #10 is from a 1980's MOTD message of the day:
All the world's a VAX,
And all the coders merely butchers;
They have their exits and their entrails;
And one int in his time plays many widths,
His sizeof being N bytes. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the Regent's arms.
And then the whining schoolboy, with his Sun,
And shining morning face, creeping like slug
Unwillingly to school.
-- A Very Annoyed PDP-11
- microtherion 6y agoHeh. Getting a response from you must be peak 1990 ;-) By the time I got started on Usenet "All the world's a VAX" was only in use as a proverbial misconception anymore. At the time, all the world was a Sun Workstation.
- neilv 6y agoYep, circa 1990, a SPARCstation or Sun-3 running SunOS 4 seemed the place to be, for having most software off the 'net build easily. I also worked on almost all the other engineering workstation platforms, for porting purposes, but a SPARCstation was my preferred main workstation, overall. (I was a kid who stumbled upon a dream job. So many expensive toys, so much I could learn, and this cool Internet thing...)
- icedchai 6y agoI bought a Sparc 5 back in 1996 or so, from a company going out of business. I felt like a king. Nobody had stuff like that at home back then.
- jacobush 6y agoWow... just seeing a post of Cliff Stoll is incredible. I love that TV movie and the book.