UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?

[Michael Havens]

by all means: reminence all you wish!

On Friday 29 June 2007 2:40 pm, Lynn Newton wrote:
> BTW, I took my first programming class in 1966, three years
> before Unix was invented.
>
> I learned a programming language called SCATR for an IBM mainframe
> (the 360? or maybe that came later), which was pretty close to
> assembly language, and had to enter my programs on IBM punch
> cards which I would hand to a technician and hope he didn't
> drop them. Then I'd come back in 6 or 8 hours (sometimes at 2:00am)
> to pick up the output of my program -- which more often than not
> would say SYNTAX ERROR.
>
> Didn't take much of that for me to lose my taste for it.
>
> The course I took was called "Computer Programming for Musicians".
> The University of Illinois was then the world's leading center for
> research in electronic and computer assisted music composition,
> and I was a music composition major.
>
> But I'm sure there are a number of subscribers to this list
> who can one-up me with "I remember when" stories, by margins
> of several years at least.
>
> I realize the original subject talks about "modern" operating
> systems, but I couldn't resist the urge to reminisce.