lunaslide wrote:
>
> Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> <rm>
>
> > The biggest thing though, is the FUN Linux restores to computing!
>
> This reply is way off topic, but this is so right on. When I seriously
> started using Linux, I had grown sort of agitated and alienated from
> computers for awhile. I had started using a PC because I was studying
> computer science and had to program in DOS. The only fun I really had
> was inside of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++ and Fractint.
Wow, do great minds think alike or what? My first language was Fortran
64 in graduate college (1965-68) on a CDC 6600. I never touched
computers again until I bought the first Apple sold in the state of
Nebrask in 1978. I learned Apple BASIC on it and started writing
business software. BASIC is somewhat boring and when Turbo Pascal 3.02a
came out I got hooked on Pascal! The the work on Chaos came out and
amoung the programs was Fractint and Dr. Barny Stone's IFS software. I
spent hours playing with Fractint and exploring Mandelbrodt and Julian
equations. On my old 386 it would take an hour to generate some of the
drawings and/or drill down in them. Now, under Linux, the drawings and
drilldown are essentially realtime. It really tells you how powerful
PCs have become.
>
> As soon as I started using Linux as my primary OS, I realized how much
> fun computing really is and that I hadn't had so much fun with a
> computer since I gave my old Mac to my Mom. My Mom herself really hated
> computers, until I gave her the Mac and hooked it up to the Internet for
> her. Now she's addicted.
>
> It is my professional opinion ;-) that Windows simply robs a user of
> most of the joy that they can feel with using a computer.
I'll second that professional opinion with my own professional opinion!
>
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> Yep. I have a very active imagination; it's been a personal
> condition of mine for years now. * -Bruce Sterling
> * * * * *
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JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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