I've probably touched on this before, but back in the 1980s, absolutely none of the computer courses I took ever even so much as touched an IBM mainframe. I alm

I've probably touched on this before, but back in the 1980s, absolutely none of the computer courses I took ever even so much as touched an IBM mainframe. I almost got the impression that there was an effort not to teach them. On the other hand, you could expect to learn a new operating system every year. Oh, we don't use DEC gear at this school, check out our spiffy Prime running PRIMOS. Lather, rinse, repeat.