Murph Posted May 15, 2023 Posted May 15, 2023 That is so true. I got tired of Microsquish demanding I upgrade to Windows 11, and pushing "feature" updates that kill my settings, by changing things without notice.
urbanoid Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 I'm much older than that (Win 95 and 98) and I'm not even old by any standards.
sunday Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 2 minutes ago, Tim Sielbeck said: Fortran, Cobalt, and C on a VAC/VMS. Fortran in VAX, then C on Sun.
Murph Posted July 12, 2023 Posted July 12, 2023 DOS for me, and whatever the heck they ran on the mainframe at college that we had to use punch cards for.
Leo Niehorster Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 COBOL, FORTRAN, Basic, ToolBook, C, DOS, HTML. Started with DOS 3.3, then 4.01, then Windows 3.1. Aaah, the days of juggling HIMEM.SYS and LOADHIGH. Good old 640 KB. Tried UNIX at that time, but didn't like the abomination vi, inappropriately designated as an "editor". (Ducking for cover.) The DOS version was much more practical. As was DOSShell.
Rick Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 On 7/9/2023 at 12:01 PM, Murph said: First computer I used was a 3.1 at work.
TrustMe Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 3 hours ago, Leo Niehorster said: COBOL, FORTRAN, Basic, ToolBook, C, DOS, HTML. Started with DOS 3.3, then 4.01, then Windows 3.1. Aaah, the days of juggling HIMEM.SYS and LOADHIGH. Good old 640 KB. Tried UNIX at that time, but didn't like the abomination vi, inappropriately designated as an "editor". (Ducking for cover.) The DOS version was much more practical. As was DOSShell. I used to love Vi. It was a very powerful text editior if you could remember all the commands
sunday Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 38 minutes ago, TrustMe said: I used to love Vi. It was a very powerful text editior if you could remember all the commands If.
TrustMe Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 31 minutes ago, sunday said: If. Nobobody's perfect I still remember some of the commands even though I haven't used it in 25 years, ever since I dropped out of university. I used to love writing shell scripts.
sunday Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 3 minutes ago, TrustMe said: Nobobody's perfect I still remember some of the commands even though I haven't used it in 25 years, ever since I dropped out of university. I used to love writing shell scripts. Having the option between vi and emacs, I ended using the plain text editor of SunOS.
TrustMe Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 22 minutes ago, sunday said: Having the option between vi and emacs, I ended using the plain text editor of SunOS. Never used Emacis and whilist I used Sun Solaris Sparcstation computer I was never taught about a text editor other than Vi.
Murph Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 Same here, I loaded VIM and after a little while, went back to Nano, which handles everything I need to do in an editor, my needs are basic at best. If I was going to continue with VIM, I would print out a cheat sheet.
sunday Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 2 hours ago, TrustMe said: Never used Emacis and whilist I used Sun Solaris Sparcstation computer I was never taught about a text editor other than Vi. That one was barely better than Notepad, but at least one could use the mouse and the editing keys on the left of the Sun keyboard.
sunday Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 35 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said: Real Men use Emacs. I have spoken. Are you sure there is no LGTBetc. emacs user group?
DB Posted August 22, 2023 Posted August 22, 2023 Aside from the early foray into punch cards and an antique IBM system with a very basic BASIC, back in about 1980, my own BBC Micro (with the best version of BASIC ever made, fight me), I used a VAX 11/750 and 11/780 with FORTRAN 77 at university and thankfully needed to do very little programming thereafter - Borland C++ on PC and some straight C for a few minor projects at work, and a bit of DOORS DXL for requirements management work later on (it's a restricted C++ variant with some very funky additional keywords and functions). The invention of folding and keyword/syntax highlighting editors made everything else obsolete overnight.
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