22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
12:24 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
A big reason for the techies and nerds was so they
could do
programming without being constrained by time limits. And what did they
programs? GAMES!
Well, to give just one data point, not me: when I first learned how to
program at the age of 7, in PDP-11 assembly on my first home computer,
Soviet BK0010, I did NOT write any games. My first program, although
it was not on the BK0010 but on its successor, BK0011, was an operating
system. So I guess I was destined from the very beginning to be an OS
guy. (What am I doing now, 18 years later? Maintaining 4.3BSD-Quasijarus,
an operating system. And it's for VAX, which is not that far away from
PDP-11, my first instruction set.)
MS
22 Sep
22 Sep
3:27 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com>
wrote:
> A big reason for the techies and nerds was so they could do
> programming without being constrained by time limits. And what did they
> programs? GAMES!
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 20:24, Michael Sokolov wrote:
Well, to give just one data point, not me: when I first learned how to
program at the age of 7, in PDP-11 assembly on my first home computer,
Soviet BK0010,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ----> COOL! :-)
I did NOT write any games. My first program,
although
it was not on the BK0010 but on its successor, BK0011, was an operating
system.
Me too. I eventually did get a TDL/Xitan FORTRAN version of ADVENTURE
running (CP/M 2.2 and PDOS), but I've never played any other computer
games I can recall (OK the old numeric TREK typed into DG Nova 1200
BASIC). It was all hardware, device drivers, tape storage, and operating
systems for me too.
Games on computer bore me to tears to this day. I can't imagine a more
collosal waste of time! Obviously, an entire *world* of people today
think otherwise, more power to 'em!
3:58 p.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
Me too. I eventually did get a TDL/Xitan FORTRAN
version of ADVENTURE
running (CP/M 2.2 and PDOS), but I've never played any other computer
games I can recall (OK the old numeric TREK typed into DG Nova 1200
BASIC). It was all hardware, device drivers, tape storage, and operating
systems for me too
Lets face it most of the time BASIC was used it was for GAMES!
And M$ for the most part too!
Games on computer bore me to tears to this day. I
can't imagine a more
collosal waste of time! Obviously, an entire *world* of people today
think otherwise, more power to 'em!
But with out games, I don't think computers would have moved to
Bit-Mapped displays.
Ben.
4:37 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, ben franchuk wrote:
Without games we would be 5000 years behind our current human history.
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Games on
computer bore me to tears to this day. I can't imagine a more
collosal waste of time! Obviously, an entire *world* of people today
think otherwise, more power to 'em!
But with out games, I don't think computers would have moved to
Bit-Mapped displays.
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