Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My experience exactly! I stopped programming when the first Microsoft PC turned out to be about 50x slower than the old process control machine I had been using. A victory of marketing over technology. Baahh. Frank --- On Thu, 28/5/09, Gary Todoroff <datamaster at northcoastphotos.com> wrote: > From: Gary Todoroff <datamaster at northcoastphotos.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG archives online again, and search works > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thursday, 28 May, 2009, 4:23 PM > > > For the technically inclined, the problem was that the > new server used v4.6 of Berkeley DB, and the LUG archives > had been using v1.8 since the beginning. The file format > compatibility finally broke, and I had to regenerate all of > the BDB indexes, but I kept on finding version skew under > musty old rocks, as this or that auxiliary program needed to > be re-linked or upgraded to be compatible with BDB 4.6. > > When Hewlett-Packard stopped making the HP3000 just a > couple years ago, you could still take a program stored on a > 1976 HP tape drive, load it to the newest HP3000 and it > would run! Computer professionals and the companies they > worked for used to treat programming seriously. Backwards > compatibility was an important issue because of the immense > investment of time and money in older programs. When the > kids took over with DOS and PC's, we lost the professional > approach. Windows is now the Taj Mahal built on a foundation > of toothpicks. Having lived all their lives on such shaky > ground, most programmers today seem to have equally shaky > standards. > > Thanks, Brian, for all your efforts and for making up the > difference where the last generation or two of computer > "professionals" have let us down. I am thankful for a career > as a programmer/analyst during the era of solid mid-range > computer systems. That golden age is long-gone now, and am > equally thankful to no longer be programming. When I found > myself spending more time UNDER the desk fixing the computer > than AT the desk writing useful programs, I knew it was time > to move on. > > Gary Todoroff > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information >