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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
I've been a UNIX user/sysadmin since 1980. I didn't bother with Windows until 1985 when I wanted a bit more control over my graphics, a good printer driver and something a bit more capable than nroff MS macros coded with a "vi" editor. My idea of "fun" in that era was interfacing a TI9918A graphics chip to a Heathkit H8 computer and spending days with a copy of Foley and van Dam to write the graphics primitives libraries. It was all the amusement I could afford at that point in time.

Thanks for pointing out the AVG for Linux. That's a good find.

159 posted on 12/14/2009 2:59:19 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
Thanks for pointing out the AVG for Linux. That's a good find.

Be advised that you have to add the Dazuko module to the kernel to get the resident scanner to work.

My only computer course was back in 1972. We had an old DEC PDP-8 mainframe. Still had punch card readers, and that yellow punchtape to enter programmes. The teletypes didn't even have monitors. Output was typed to tractor fed paper.

Because of line voltage fluxuations, the system would crash all of the time. Very frustrating.

162 posted on 12/14/2009 3:05:37 PM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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