I come from a time of MS-DOS 3.31, MFM drives, and dial-up modems. There were no graphic user interfaces, no high-speed internet. 10 megabyte hard drives were of a 5-1/4 inch footprint, took up 2 bays and weighed about 8 pounds.
Who here recalls the "fdisk" command or "format c: /s"? These things have gone away, rendered obsolete by advancements in technology. Gone are the days when we sat in front of a keyboard with the "C Prompt" on a screen; a green light to begin issuing commands to make our computers do their magic.
Today, everything is mouse pointing and clicking. We have become disconnected from our computers. We have come to rely on a group of people (programmers) to act as our interpreters; we tell the user interface what we want, and the user interface translates that into a language the machine can understand. But what goes on behind the scenes of those GUIs? We don't know.
After 19 months of experimenting with different flavors of Linux, I have decided Ubuntu is my flavor of choice.
I look forward to sitting at my terminal screen and issuing commands again.
Thank you, The Old DOS Guy.
Who here recalls the "fdisk" command or "format c: /s"? These things have gone away, rendered obsolete by advancements in technology. Gone are the days when we sat in front of a keyboard with the "C Prompt" on a screen; a green light to begin issuing commands to make our computers do their magic.
Today, everything is mouse pointing and clicking. We have become disconnected from our computers. We have come to rely on a group of people (programmers) to act as our interpreters; we tell the user interface what we want, and the user interface translates that into a language the machine can understand. But what goes on behind the scenes of those GUIs? We don't know.
After 19 months of experimenting with different flavors of Linux, I have decided Ubuntu is my flavor of choice.
I look forward to sitting at my terminal screen and issuing commands again.
Thank you, The Old DOS Guy.