Hello Maurice!

22 May 18 12:45, you wrote to me:

 KvE>> If your remark is about Vi, then it does.

 MK> Yes it was but after thinking about it I realized it could also apply to
 MK> life.

 The Dutch word for life is not as close to vi as the french word for life.

 MK> Now I do but not back when I was teaching myself C and Unix.  Before that
 MK> it was VAX/VMS which I had a 10-20 page typed document for.  I had to

 I did some work on a microvax, for some time. It had the TGV toolkit
 installed. I think the toolkit was of Australian origin.

 MK> learn that the hard way as well but had a bit of advantage as I had a
 MK> book
 MK> for Fortran which helped quite a bit.  I wrote many utilities for
 MK> retrieving and formatting data to and from nine track tape drives and then
 MK> later on for external scsi exabyte drives for Sparc stations.

 I dir read Fortran and once did a conversion to the very rich Basic that
 HP had on it's Desk calculators. These machines were very usefull in
 laboratory automation, The were carefully called desktop calculator to
 bypass IT departments for implementations where IT had no knowledge at all.

 KvE>> I usually search for examples on the web.

 MK> There was no web back then.  In fact I recall when the www first started.
 MK> The first web interface I encountered was lynx on a dumb terminal and the
 MK> html output on it was all screwed up due to the default 80 character width
 MK> of lynx on a terminal that couldn't display it properly.  I never
 MK> understood the attraction of html until seeing the gui version on
 MK> xwindows. I think it was mozilla but maybe an earlier form of it.  It
 MK> might come to me later.

 I saw my first web pages on a IBM terminal. The URL's were replaced by
 numbers in the order, they were found on the visible page and selected by
 typing the number. The were more URL type interfaces, one I remeber was gopher

 MK> I don't miss those days at all.

 Only for the fact that I was young.

 KvE>> I suppose that is age as well, short term memory goes first.

 MK> Yes.  I can relate to that as well as some long term memory such as what
 MK> mozilla may or may not have been called before mozilla.  :-/

 It must have been Mosaic by Marc Andreessen

Kees

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