Contractor Haters

[stackpole]

Not for the first time I feel out of my depth reading a thread.

I bet it was great in the old, black-and-white days when a computer filled a floor, had loads of those tape drives spinning backwards and forwards, and was controlled by real men.

Did MS bring out a version of Word for Machine Code?

[oldgeezer]

Ancient, I didn't have a go on VAX but remember them being around. It's a strange feeling seeing #XPJC mentioned again, what about CLDF ?, once a common term. Got to admit I've forgotten 99.9% of the mechanics but it's the overall priciples that stick. p.s the ICL1901T processor I first worked on had 32K memory, could run one program at a time and was the size of an Audi A2!
Sorry to bore, won't post anymore

[ancient]

Not for the first time I feel out of my depth reading a thread.

I bet it was great in the old, black-and-white days when a computer filled a floor, had loads of those tape drives spinning backwards and forwards, and was controlled by real men.

Did MS bring out a version of Word for Machine Code?

Do not worry about it - SOA and Grid Computing will solve all your problems.

Just remember transaction control, two-phase commits (yuk), and end-to-end exceptions handling.

[ancient]

Ancient, I didn't have a go on VAX but remember them being around. It's a strange feeling seeing #XPJC mentioned again, what about CLDF ?, once a common term. Got to admit I've forgotten 99.9% of the mechanics but it's the overall priciples that stick. p.s the ICL1901T processor I first worked on had 32K memory, could run one program at a time and was the size of an Audi A2!
Sorry to bore, won't post anymore

Hey, Oldgeezer, you should post as much as you want - it can be good for the soul.

If we can pass on some wisdom based on experience or learn from others then why not.

IT is full of fashion, but at the end of the day it is bits, bytes a processor and some I/O device - that has not changed in the last 35 years that I am aware of (apart from some hyper-threading). How we do the coding and modelling has a bit, but that is not new, just a new way of thinking.

I am allways glad to here what you have to say - and I am sure many others.

Do not be intimidated by anyone, you have some fantastic experience.

Whilst I may be getting older, I do alot on enterprise architecture and business intelligence, heavily involved in stuff like neural networks, data mining, do the odd project review etc.

The business, technology (diversity) and people (managing change) issues have added extra layers of complexity over the years.

Way back it was exciting, and it still is - all part of the journey

[n5gooner]

Yes.

It was called EDLIN.

Ctrl Z

save...exit....

[zeitghost]

And it's still available on this Win2k box... I've just run it.

[n5gooner]

and XP