Thermite,
You are officially one of the oldest computer geeks I know. Much of what you speak must make no sense to many.
Can we somehow download your brain onto the net before you pass? Perhaps the best to hope is that your posts live forever to be puzzled over.
Bob
LOL! Chuck Moore, vintage 1938, McKeesport, PA to my 1945 Northside, Pgh was still above-ground, last I looked. ISTR his National Merit Scholarship was clocked in his senior year of HS. Mine was in tenth-grade, so I wasn't yet up to speed. never did catch up to Chuck on 'puters. Might beat him on nightime VFR, short field over-obstacle landings, no field lights though. Never saw the point in practicing the EASY ones.
Too MUCH in the record, and long-since.
ISTR there were 58,000 posts on SMTP mail server anti-spam technique folder alone, top half-dozen or so MTA, too DAMNED high a percentage of them my own ones! Why is PM not surprised?
Then there had been hands-on MIM-14B, AN/GSA-51. AN/FSQ-7...IBM 701, (cousins, actually, those last two..) OSI-Challenger, S-100 geek-among-many, forth, CP/M thru MP/M and CCP/M to DRDOS, Flex, Netwire, DECUS, IBM OS/2, virtualizers, Slackware, coupla *BSD's...
Well.... if a body started with a salvaged ASR-33 and a cable address before even Compuserve or GEISCO?
Long years I had IS/IT staff, even global responsibility, just not my prime directive.
Otherwise it has only been one interesting avocation among several, not what primarily paid the bills.
Not "dead" just yet. Next bare-metal binary install of OpenBSD? I'm shooting to get down to 60 wall-clock seconds to full-function customized fvwm-2 GUI onto pre-partitioned and newfs'ed SSD media.
Eat yer hearts out,
slowly, oh ye worm-fodder MicroSoft'ies, willing containerships for malware.
Far too
much of my noise is out there somewhere already, so I'd REALLY rather play with old iron at this late stage in life.
If only I could still LIFT a G-D
vise, anyway...
