• How do you use unix?
• 1) System administrator
• 2) Developer
• 3) User
• 4) Scientist
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On 6/29/24 2:32 PM, Amessyroom wrote:

1: System administrator
2: Developer
3: User
4: Scientist

Professionally, I'm a UNIX / Linux Sr. SysAdmin.
HPUX 11.23-11.31, AIX 7.3, Solaris 8-10, and RHEL 4-<current>.

Post Script:
I've been doing this a long time, and I'm still learning stuff on a
daily basis.
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Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: Gandolf to Amessyroom on Mon Sep 02 2024 10:11 pm

On 6/29/24 2:32 PM, Amessyroom wrote:

1: System administrator
2: Developer
3: User
4: Scientist

Professionally, I'm a UNIX / Linux Sr. SysAdmin. HPUX 11.23-11.31, AIX 7.3, Solaris 8-10, and RHEL 4-<current>.

Post Script:
I've been doing this a long time, and I'm still learning stuff on a daily basis.
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Gandalf

Thanks for sharing. Yeah, I think I'm going to be the last one standing at work. So many people retiring around me, but I still have at least 10 years if I want full retirement. So hope I can make it.

You are correct regarding, learning stuff on a daily basis.

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Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: Gandolf to Amessyroom on Mon Sep 02 2024 10:11 pm

I've been doing this a long time, and I'm still learning stuff on a
daily basis.

I started my IT carrer since HS. (1980)

Cut my teeth on our timesharing system using a 300baud dialup connection from Kearny NJ to Perth Amboy NJ.

On Tue and Wed a group of us (5) went to the VoTech in Jersey City NJ and we spent 4 hours learning RPG II on punched cards and 8 1/2 inch floppies.

On Tuesday, we prgrammed our cards and they were stored in a box.
On Thursday, we would have our print outs waiting for us, hoping the program didn't bomb and we had to spend the time manually debugging errors with each other.

I still have one of the 5 disc CDI discpacks given to me as a momento and a floppy with nothing on the label save for the name of my IBM AS/400 name : "AMPLIBR". We all named our libraries (LIBR) prefixed with our initials.

Ahhhhh...memories...

I don't miss the X-LOCKED error messages...

... was it an AS/400 or a 3270? Hmmmmmmmm...



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Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: KnightMare to Gandolf on Tue Sep 03 2024 10:40 pm

Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: Gandolf to Amessyroom on Mon Sep 02 2024 10:11 pm

I've been doing this a long time, and I'm still learning stuff on a daily
basis.

I started my IT carrer since HS. (1980)

Cut my teeth on our timesharing system using a 300baud dialup connection from Kearny NJ to Perth Amboy NJ.

On Tue and Wed a group of us (5) went to the VoTech in Jersey City NJ and we spent 4 hours learning RPG II on punched cards and 8 1/2 inch floppies.

On Tuesday, we prgrammed our cards and they were stored in a box. On Thursday, we would have our print outs waiting for us, hoping the program didn't bomb and we had to spend the time manually debugging errors with each other.

I still have one of the 5 disc CDI discpacks given to me as a momento and a floppy with nothing on the label save for the name of my IBM AS/400 name : "AMPLIBR". We all named our libraries (LIBR) prefixed with our initials.

Wild. I never did punch cards. But in high school we had to enter our code RPG II/COBOL onto 8-inch disks , then the disks were loaded into our IBM System 34 or something similar. And the jobs were ran in batch as you expressed. Wow I remember the waiting, like you said to see if it was going to run or not.

Now days you just you can compile/interpret as many times as you need/want; not as much time is spent or concern given on whether the code is going to run :-)

Fortunately, we had some TRS-80 Model II/16 systems also that we did BASIC on. So it wasn't all batch.

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Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: Amessyroom to KnightMare on Wed Sep 04 2024 07:48 am

Wild. I never did punch cards. But in high school we had to enter our code RPG II/COBOL onto 8-inch disks , then the disks were loaded into our IBM System 34 or something similar. And the jobs were ran in batch as you expressed. Wow I remember the waiting, like you said to see if it was going to run or not.

Kinda miss those days. That's when there was great care in writing and debugging, as the wait time was mostly unbearble.

Good times :)

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