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>"In contrast, a classical "sysadmin" as that term was used in the 80s/90s job roles was usually not a hard-core C++ programmer." No they weren't likely "a har
by bogomipz 6y ago
>"In contrast, a classical "sysadmin" as that term was used in the 80s/90s job roles was usually not a hard-core C++ programmer."
No they weren't likely "a hard-core C++ programmer" since UNIX was written in C. SysAdmins at that time were however likely to be a hardcore C programmer working at an ISP or large university network. There you had to know how to maintain and modify source to things like Sendmail, BIND, Apache and RADIUS. There was no StackOverflow or Google to consult. Your comment seems to be propagating some baseless trope that was never true. Your statements really suggest that you weren't actually there in the time period you are commenting on.