From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 9 12:38:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7166837B406; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:38:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15Uvdt-000GfJ-00; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:38:53 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f79JcqD94435; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:38:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:38:52 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , Greg Lehey , Mike Meyer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <20010809203852.A94349@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <3B7103A4.558B9B3B@mindspring.com> <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <20010808160551.Q78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B7103A4.558B9B3B@mindspring.com> <20010809202137.A94276@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010809132550.046ed150@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010809132550.046ed150@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:28:00PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:28:00PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: | At 01:21 PM 8/9/2001, j mckitrick wrote: | | >Then I moved on to an Amiga 1000, and promptly bought the Aztec Manx C | >compiler. I never did figure out how to read all of those man pages that | >came with the Fred Fish disks. :-) | | At BADGE (the Bay Area Amiga Developers' GroupE), which I founded, Fred | would come to every meeting and run off diskettes at the back of the | room during the talks. I had the Green Hills compiler that was part of | the official SDK. Green Hills' compilers produced correct but poorly | optimized code.... As GCC does. I wanted something better. Too bad I was just a kid then. I just dabbled in coding because there were no real high school classes any more advanced than Pascal. My friend and I, the only juniors in the seniors-only class, spent a few hours a week doing assignments, and the rest helping other kids and playing games. :-) The Amiga was my first step toward Unix. So many of the utilities came with man pages, and of course the whole development process was CLI oriented. I remember saving money from mowing lawns to buy Aztec C and the Source Debugger. I thought I was in heaven. ;-) jm -- "Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck by a missile." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message