<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Greg Freemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Damon L. Chesser <<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com">damon@damtek.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 08:51 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:<br>
>> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 05:23 -0700, Damon Chesser wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I am curious, having never used Unix, anybody have a clue what he<br>
>> > might have meant?<br>
>><br>
>> What he meant was that he was not really a UNIX geek and that Linux<br>
>> perplexed him :)<br>
>><br>
>> Sorry, I've never bit**ed about things being automatic. If anything<br>
>> I've complained about things being too automatic making it harder for<br>
>> newbies to learn the internals so they can fix real problems.<br>
>><br>
>> As I said before. When I got into Linux vi was our config tool and we<br>
>> learned more about UNIX then than a noob will learn today in the same<br>
>> amount of time. If you had to download a base X config and then<br>
>> configure it for your desktop using vi then raise your hand....<br>
>> Everyone else get off my lawn!<br>
><br>
> My hand is raised. 30 days to get X running on my first Linux install.<br>
<br>
</div>My first UNIX computer was a Perkin Elmer (1982?). I don't think Sun<br>
or Apollo were shipping yet.<br>
<br>
IIRC, it didn't come with a graphic monitor at all. We needed<br>
graphics, so we bought some monitors and graphics cards. Over $200K<br>
for a few monitors / high-end controllers / and a polaroid based<br>
graphic printer. (iirc).<br>
<br>
The printer was cool. It had a B&W monitor that faced up and a<br>
polaroid camera that faced down. I think there were colored filters<br>
between the two that controlled what color was being printed. The<br>
primary colors were "printed" onto the polaroid one at a time, by<br>
physically moving the filter.<br>
<br>
Get off my grass.<br></blockquote><div><br>jeez! You were using computers before they had electricity! Are you sure you can stand on your hind legs? :-)<br><br>There was a photographer in the later 1800's that was making "color" pictures with a triple exposure with RGB filters. He would then project the pictures on the wall using the RGB filters again and overlay all three. People were suitably impressed. Some lost cache of his work was recently (i.e. last 3-5 years) discovered and the photography world was in a tizzy for a while. Cool stuff!<br>
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