On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:48 AM DL Neil <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> wrote: > Working with a bunch of younger folk (who may technically be of the age > of 'grand-children' - pardon me, I almost fell over my (long, grey) > beard), I am frequently the butt of their gentle, if ageist, jokes. > However, my sardonic amusement is to watch them wrestling with concepts > 'we' readily recognise, perhaps from as long ago as mainframe-days.
My Dad was in computing back in the mainframe days, and used to regale me with stories of holding a kilobyte of memory. But now I've started doing the same sorts of things - I can expound upon the wonders of engineering floppy disk boot sectors and finding that one spare byte that I could use for something unrelated, or writing MS-DOS TSRs, or *avoiding* writing a TSR by having it invoke another program and then clean up after itself when that program finished... I distinctly remember hooking the Print Screen interrupt to switch from one screen to another so that I could play Colossal Caves (aka "ADVENTUR") and keep track of which treasures I'd collected. Young folks these days would say "why couldn't you just alt-tab"... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
