Simple Question Re: FedUp

[Joe Zeff]

On 12/16/2012 05:15 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> Age is irrelevant when quantifying competence or skill nor should it be
> (you'd feel peeved I should imagine if somebody referred to you
> similarly because you first installed Linux from a floppy).
>

I'm not saying that he's wrong or not competent and, in fact, by the 
time I first installed Linux (an early version of RedHat in the '90s) it 
came on CD.  I just thought it worth commenting on the fact that he 
didn't even appear to know about installing from floppy.

> If you feel the rest of the arguments he made in his post are somehow
> wrong & feel you could enlighten him & help the whole community out as
> well, I'm sure he would be only too delighted to benefit from your years
> of experience.

Oh, no, I have no quarrel with his explanation; I just found it 
interesting that he was just as unaware of installing from floppy as he 
(probably) was about installing an OS from punched cards, as we needed 
to do on the first computer I ever programmed.  (If memory serves, what 
we'd now call the binary image, along with a program to load the cards 
and write them properly on the hard disk, filled three drawers of 
punched cards.)