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> I first learned C in 1991 on a VAX running VMS and also on an IBM AIX machine. If I went outside the array bounds I might get a crash or segfault and could us
by indymike 4y ago
> I first learned C in 1991 on a VAX running VMS and also on an IBM AIX machine. If I went outside the array bounds I might get a crash or segfault and could use a debugger to load the crash dump and see where it died.
I started on DOS... but one day I bought an AT&T 3B2400 and two veritcal format Televideo terminals at a university salvage sale for $25 (it didn't do Lotus 1-2-3, so the business school didn't want it). That machine was a a true SVR3.2 Unix machine, complete with all the development tools and incredibly good documentation. The 3B2 was a world into itself, and opened my eyes to how limiting DOS was.
- Bluecobra 4y agoWow, that’s a steal! They did eventually release 1-2-3 for Unix in 1990, in fact someone recently ported it to Linux: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html
- indymike 4y agoI didn't fully appreciate what a deal I got until the SCSI controller failed. The part cost more than the 386 PC that replaced the 3B2.