hpr1252 :: The Long Road To Linux
Beeza has been in the IT world for a long time
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minicomputer, daisywheel, winchester disk, FORTRAN77, DEC VAX, VMS, VAXcluster, IBM AS/400.
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Over about 30 years Beeza has been a software developer and tester, a system designer and technical author. In that time he's worked with a wide range of software, hardware and technologies. From DOS and the early days of Windows and the Mac, through to his conversion to Linux, he's seen great changes in the way we develop software and use computers. Not all the changes have necessarily been for the better, though.
For anyone who's been around the IT world for a while, this may be a short trip down memory lane. For relative newcomers, it may come as a surprise to discover just how much was achieved years ago with so few resources.