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The CS course I did in the 1980s had us use a Burroughs mainframe for the first year (complete with MCP) - I think this was a cunning ploy to make us really app

The CS course I did in the 1980s had us use a Burroughs mainframe for the first year (complete with MCP) - I think this was a cunning ploy to make us really appreciate Unix when we got to use for the remaining three years....

lproven 4y ago
Just curious: in what ways? I started out on VAXen before I learned DOS or Xenix, and frankly, I preferred it. File versioning was wonderful and with that as a basis, we'd never have needed the vile baroque mess that is Git.
- arethuza 4y ago
  The Burroughs user environment was a thing called CANDE - which really wasn't much fun at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDE
  - lproven 4y ago
    How odd. That sounds very strange, but now I want to try it. :-)