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93- < img src ="images/unixplate.png " alt ="UNIX Licence Plate " align ="right " />
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9595< p >
9696< a href ="http://www.apple.com ">
97- < img src ="images/NeXT.png " alt ="NeXT logo " hspace ="5 " vspace ="5 " align ="left " border ="0 " />
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9999I make my living messing about with various sorts of computers and software,
100100so I spend a lot of time in their company.
101101Needless to say,
102102this has had the effect of seriously warping my mind and my sense of humour.
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119119running the
120120< a href ="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System ">
121121MTS</ a > operating system at
122- < a href ="http://www.uofaweb. ualberta.ca/ece/ ">
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122+ < a href ="http://www.ualberta.ca/~vbowler/HyperDispatch19/timeline.html ">
123+ < img src ="./ images/UofA.png " alt ="U of A logo " hspace ="5 " vspace ="5 " align ="left " border ="0 " />
124124The University of Alberta</ a > .
125125For various reasons,
126126including my own inattention and lack of imagination,
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153153
154154< p >
155155Once I got out of university, my first job, at the
156- < a href ="http://www.arc.ab .ca/ ">
157- < img src ="images/ARClogo.png " alt ="ARC logo " hspace ="5 " vspace ="5 " align ="right " border ="0 " />
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158158Alberta Research Council
159159</ a > ,
160160exposed me to
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184184< p >
185185My first computer was a
186186< a href ="http://www.dec.com ">
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188188DEC VT-180
189189</ a >
190190< a href ="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT180 ">
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216216which was physically
217217smaller than an Apple II, but packed an 8 Mhz
218218< a href ="http://www.freescale.com/ ">
219- < img src ="images/680X0.png " alt ="M68K logo " hspace ="5 " vspace ="5 " height ="50 " width ="50 " align ="right " border ="0 " />
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22022068000 CPU
221221</ a >
222222and 512 Kb of RAM.
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241241My own computer has been on the Internet or its precursor one
242242way or another since 1987.
243243< a href ="http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/ ">
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245245The University of Calgary
246246</ a >
247247graciously offered me a 1200 baud UUCP connection for free,
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268268if I wanted to stay connected. I bought faster
269269and faster modems
270270(including the legendary
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272272< a href ="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit#PEP_and_the_TrailBlazer ">
273273Telebit Trailblazer</ a > ) to
274274stay online, and even agreed with the university when they
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281281</ p >
282282
283283< p >
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285285In early 1991, my Stride 440 machine had a serious hardware failure.
286286The manufacturer had gone out of business, and there were few of these
287287systems out and about, so finding spare parts was a nightmare.
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337337Deepest kudos go, however, to the NeXT design team and Steve
338338Jobs for his incredible vision of the future of computing.
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403403</ a >
404404My wife has been a long time fan of the Apple Macintosh,
405405and I had some experience using Macs at some of my jobs,
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424424almost entirely from the NextStep and OpenStep operating systems Apple inherited
425425when it acquired what was left of NeXT in 1997
426426(Amit Singh has written an excellent
427- < a href ="http://kernelthread .com/mac/oshistory/ "> history</ a >
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428428of Apple operating systems).
429429As an enthusiastic fan of NextStep, I had little doubt that the new OS X
430430operating system would succeed and thrive eventually.
431431I ended up buying an
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433433PowerBook G4 < i > (Ivory)</ i > </ a >
434434and I was not disappointed.
435435Since about 2001 all of the "personal" computers
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489489</ a >
490490<!-- Since my bias is already showing, I'll carry on slandering
491491Intel's products. -->
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507507</ a >
508508On the other hand, Intel took an 8085 and stretched out a
509509couple of internal registers and called it a 16 bit
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520520< h3 > A Confession</ h3 >
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524524
525525At this point, I must admit that I am no doubt horribly biased. For many
526526years, I have had a notion that amongst computer folks, one
633633mentalities. As someone on the edge of 40 at the time,
634634I felt like quite an old man at this
635635event, and I was somewhat amused when someone recognized my
636- < a href ="http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg .de/~feyrer/ NetBSD/images/free-the-Berkeley-4.4-2 .gif ">
636+ < a href ="http://www.feyrer .de/NetBSD/images/free-the-Berkeley-4.4-1 .gif ">
637637T-shirt
638638</ a >
639639from a 1993
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689689<!-- <li><a href="http://www.bsdi.com">BSDI</a></li> -->
690690< li > < a href ="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html "> Java</ a > </ li >
691691< li > < a href ="http://developer.android.com/index.html "> Android</ a > </ li >
692- < li > < a href ="http://www.catb.org/~esr "> Eric S. Raymond's Home Page</ a > </ li >
692+ < li > < a href ="http://www.catb.org/~esr/ "> Eric S. Raymond's Home Page</ a > </ li >
693693< li > < a href ="http://www.gnu.org/ "> The Gnu Operating System</ a > </ li >
694694< li > < a href ="http://www.nextcomputers.org/ "> NeXT</ a > </ li >
695695<!-- <li><a href="http://www.greatcircle.com">Firewalls</a></li> -->
696696< li > < a href ="http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ "> Gnu Smalltalk</ a > </ li >
697697< li > < a href ="http://www.squeak.org "> Squeak Smalltalk</ a > </ li >
698- < li > < a href ="http://www. pharo-project .org/home "> Pharo Smalltalk</ a > </ li >
698+ < li > < a href ="http://pharo.org/home "> Pharo Smalltalk</ a > </ li >
699699< li > < a href ="http://wiresong.ca/monticello/ "> Monticello RCS</ a > </ li >
700700< li > < a href ="http://seaside.st/ "> Seaside</ a > </ li >
701701< li > < a href ="http://www.piercms.com/ "> Pier CMS</ a > </ li >
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