transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2934
Looks good. More people should read it. I just have one question, though: what do you have against continue and break? To...
You likely don't recognize the name. You're in a maze of twisty little pbuttages, all the same. Think of each room as a state with rules to move to another room (state).
Its pretty common, and widely disliked both for WindRiver's licensing policies and reports of poor quality control in the kernel & drivers, and frequently nonexistent (or hideously expensive) support for bug fixes. Its...
I graduated in '74. The only programming requirement for EEs was one semester of FORTRAN and PL-1. I'd programmed FORTRAN for a couple of years in high school so that course was pretty easy to tick off over the summer. The only course I didn't take that was needed for a CompEng degree was essentially buttembly programming and some hardware interfacing to a PDP-8. I started the course but got mono and had to drop it to concentrate on the core courses.
Even so, when I started with IBM I'd had more programming experience than any of my peer new hires. A few years later (perhaps '78) my manager asked the new clbutt of EE hires if any had experience programming. One female from UMbutt said that she played with a big Wang a lot in college (which had everyone rolling, much to her dismay). Programming wasn't the central issue in EE schools in the '70s and CompEng was in its infancy.
-- Keith
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2935
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