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Originally Posted by theducks
I thought it was the special job control card atr the start of the deck.  |
Wait, what? I didn't get that reference.
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Between MAC's and Winblows, the current generation has lost the understanding of how to really wring out the power of a computer..
The GUI is a "shortcut" to those underlying commands.
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Yeah, I'm amazed at how lucky I was that my very first personal computer was a 8087 (back in 1996, but hey, it was my own). I hand-built every x86 system there was (except for the 80286) up to the Pentium 1 (and a few since then, but I skipped more models), trashed DOS and several flavors of Windows quite often and reinstalled more times than I care to count. All that has taught me the practical side of how computers work really well. I think that's what most kids are missing today.
(In between I also taught myself how to program, that's another thing many modern users neglect.)