Yes, I was very impressed by the Vax and aware of how lucky I was. This was at Leeds University, and I got to use it as a post-grad. I think most undergrads wer

Yes, I was very impressed by the Vax and aware of how lucky I was. This was at Leeds University, and I got to use it as a post-grad. I think most undergrads were limited to timesharing on an Amdahl 470 and / or DEC-10. I can't remember now whether the Vax was a 750 or 780 - I suspect the former. The Vax had perhaps five users so it was fine for our needs. If the Vax wasn't impressive enough, I recall that sometime in 87/88 I was developing a quadtree visualiser on a Sun workstation - perhaps a Sun-2? This was a really mind-blowing graphical environment after being stuck with curses [0] on the Vax. But still reliant on the man pages, coming back to the original topic. I hadn't yet discovered usenet and the comp.sci FAQs. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_library) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_library)