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Quite clever, you crafty old fart, you.===>...inventing a few audit rules. Bizarrely it worked!...<===
I was not an old fart then, I was 30 years old, with a job for which I was not remotely qualified.Quite clever, you crafty old fart, you.
Many jobs ago (mid 90's), I had a 2 IBM Power desktops in my office. They came with NT 3.51; I'm pretty sure they used the PowerPC 604 (or maybe 603e). I was using them to eval PPC for a re-design of an ATM switch we were building. The switch used a bunch of AMD 29K CPUs (mostly 29040 and 29200), and AMD had announced the end of the 29K family (it was more profitable to chase Intel on x86).Since this thread got a reference from another talking about how "old" NT 3.51 was, I thought I'd jump back in on the subject.
I originally started working with a beta of NT 3.1... it was pretty amazing for the PC world. When 3.5 came out, it really tightened the performance up (hence the codename "Daytona"). The 3.51 point release was primarily to add PowerPC support, I believe.
Good times.
I had a beta of NT 3.1 as well. In fact, I wrote my first kernel driver for that system as part of my master's thesis. I had to dig up two machines capable of running NT (not an easy feat back then). I think I needed to upgrade the target machine to 12MB just to get it to run the checked build acceptably.Since this thread got a reference from another talking about how "old" NT 3.51 was, I thought I'd jump back in on the subject.
I originally started working with a beta of NT 3.1... it was pretty amazing for the PC world. When 3.5 came out, it really tightened the performance up (hence the codename "Daytona"). The 3.51 point release was primarily to add PowerPC support, I believe.
Good times.
But now, things are advancing so quickly that I am no longer at the top of the heap computer-savvy wise. In fact, the heap is piling on me! WTF?
Anyone know if VRML will be coming back? It was a scripting html type format based on OpenGL with 3D renderings in webpages, think: minecraft
- If you want to get back to the rush of programming when it really was miraculous, have a go at GPU programming like OpenCL or the newer Vulcan. It's in C mainly, but to make code run really fast is a real trick.
Not me, but I did have a friend in graduate school at Columbia who had used Plato III (remember TUTOR?) while in high school at Champaign, IL, for Chemistry, IIRC. It made a huge impact on me, Not too long before that I used Frank Wood's 'Accounting: A Programmed Text' and a few of us compiled it to use in the then, State of the Art, IBM 360-195 thinking the approach just might be improved with automation. We were a few years ahead of ourselves, as was Wood. It was great fun and hugely educational to participate, however peripherally, in automated learning.Anyone here use the PLATO system back in the day?
I had an Old Fart moment a few days ago. I believe was thinking about all the Intel versions of ..86 processor ( 8086,182,286 386, 486 ) but now I can't remember why.
Many jobs ago (mid 90's), I had a 2 IBM Power desktops in my office. They came with NT 3.51; I'm pretty sure they used the PowerPC 604 (or maybe 603e). I was using them to eval PPC for a re-design of an ATM switch we were building. The switch used a bunch of AMD 29K CPUs (mostly 29040 and 29200), and AMD had announced the end of the 29K family (it was more profitable to chase Intel on x86).
I had the dubious pleasure of porting VxWorks from the 29030 to the 29040 (mostly working around the new cache architecture; we didn't care about the FPU). I have boxes of reference books from orphaned (or almost orphaned) CPU families that I once knew inside out, but can't bring myself to throw out (68K, 29K, i960, i860, PPC)
Anyone here use the PLATO system back in the day?
And that's the other thing. The newer the version of Windows, the worse it gets. That's another reason why I use Linux Mint. It's easy, fast, and just works.I'm 45 and I just think it's weird to know that we remember the world before computers, then they were introduced to us in school around the early 80's (grade school for me) so by default we became the computer generation, you know, generation X!
But now, things are advancing so quickly that I am no longer at the top of the heap computer-savvy wise. In fact, the heap is piling on me! WTF? I used to rule the high school computer room, and made my living running AutoCAD for years in my early 20's. I worked for a company where we got the latest, fastest computers every single year. I knew it all! (heh, doesn't every 20 year old)
Now, sadly, I buy a laptop and/or phone as infrequently as possible and hope I can go as long as possible without upgrading because I don't want to learn another new operating system. When did I become my Dad? My 26 year old son points and laughs at me.
Yeah well at least I've got my trusty work ethic going for me.