Hi all y'all (*)

I've been building computers since 1973 (S-100 bus and Seattle DOS, anyone?). Programming since 1974, Favorite programming language: SAIL, from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It was a combination of LISP, C, and assembler for the DEC-10.

I started using the arpanet when it was possible to memorize the entire (50-ish entires) Arpanet host table.

I was a professor of biochemistry from 1985 to 1997, a pharmaceutical researcher from 97 to 05, and was disabled in 05. I still do a lot of database and algorithm design.

I don't engage in "my OS/Editor/mobo/blah are better than yours" becuase I use whatever will use get the job done in a reasonable time. IBM 360/370, DEC-10, -11, -15, various Vaxen, Sun, Mac, PCs, Nova General (dropped 4k core on my foot, broke my toe. 4K core was ~80 pounds). All sorts of SIMD and MIMD machines, Crays (mostly), and so on.

I have severe lung disease and heart problems, so nowadays I'm mostly fixing hardware (component, not board-level [**]) to keep things going.

More than all y'all wanted to know, right?

Best,
dan




(*) "All Y'all" is the collective plural of "y'all", for those not from Texas

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[B]Hello, lensman, and welcome to Techspot[/B]

That's a pretty interesting story you have there If only there was enough room for all that in out User Profile boxes

I hope you enjoy it here on our friendly forums

Who has been reading Asimov then?