Ken Thompson wrote Unix in a month

I'd bet that your dad debugged with paper and pencil before punching that first card.

There was no worse and humbling experience than going down to the "window" and having one of the operators hand your card stack back with an abend output...

 

Confession of an idiot. After a few projects using those damn punch cards I switched from Comp Sci. major to Bus. Finance. Never been real patient, but holy cow, handing those things in and getting them back because I messed up...%#@$%$!!!

 

Yeah, intellisense is very useful.

Here is a really neat application:

http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=SilverlightInteractiveSession

Type the code in the black area

import wpf etc...

into the console, and watch the SilverLight canvas on the right respond.

 

024 or 026....LOL....

Ever have a security person drop a box of cards on the way to a presentation??? lol

 

"Unix" then meant something entirely different than "unix" today.

First version was something like 12KB in size, very unstable, and couldn't support more than one user at a time (hence Multics -> Unics -> Unix).

 

yeah, 'real' man carries 2 stack of cards instead of just one.

 

Well, actually, what we have in Windows To Date Is ... ADVANCED DOS... repackaged and resold... kinda...