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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
You = you personally. I got "my" first own private computer when I was 10, a hand-me-down from Dad. Had been using them since I was 6 or so which is why I am one of the few people my age who remembers things like Windows 3.1 or DOS games.
Roger that.
It's going to be an astonishingly short time before nobody you know remembers working a computer from a command line. Its starting to happen already.
Its a good thing for you that you really did start out at least learning to work a machine in DOS. For some reason I think it remains an important perspective on the nature of the beast.
When I have to deal with a Linux system, I use the command line there. I dislike trying to deal with the various *nix GUIs, I'd rather remember my half-score stupid little three-letter commands. (All right, so I have a cheat sheet of all the important tasks that have to be done on our *nix system....)
Heh, but most people don't even know how to get a Windows command line...
There had better be. I can't stand the thought of losing the ability to use such intuitive, easy commands as grep or awk - heck, I usually have to ask the Unix geek to remind me of the print command...
BTW, I use CMD in Windows all the time on the job. It's the easiest way to check currnet IP settings and reset them when necessary (using ipconfig).
It was lp the last time I used it. "print" would be easier.
I use the command line to check ip stuff, too, and occasionally for other things but not as much as the Linux command line.
But lpr isn't nearly so intuitive when the person using it hasn't ever used a 'lineprinter'.
Heck, we're only one generation away from losing all reference to "grep".
Grep that. :-)
I was told the l might stand for line but the p did not stand for print or printer, but the guy might have been trying to see what he could get me to believe.
Anyway, who cares about lines, I want the whole stinkin' document...
Oops.
"lpr" does in fact stand for "lineprinter". Back from the days when zippy-zippy dot-matrix printers only ever thought that they'd have to print out one line of text at a time, instead of a whole page.
I'm still not convinced that literary output quality has improved in the meantime.
It was sooooo coooool...
Hamurabi?
I do remember also playing the old Star Trek game on a printer.
Dang... I feel old. :-)
Is that the stuff with the holes down the sides? Dad used to bring home stacks of the stuff. We'd color on the back side and rip the strips with the holes off. That was fun.
Don't make fun of us. We're old. It's not fair.
:-)
I'm not making fun, I'm sharing your reminiscence over ancient tech! I was there... sort of... by proxy... at least I understand the challenges you faced and am thankful not to have to fight them myself.
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