From: Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: people don't understand computers anymore On 06/07/2016 02:03 PM, Bill Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Neil Cherry wrote:
I'm a bit old school, can't quite understand how those in computers can't understand the underlying principles of the computer (hardware and software). But along those same lines we're abstracting so much of this that we don't need to understand it that well.
It's a bit astonishing to me too. We get job candidates with CS degrees from reputable universities who don't know what a register is,
It's where the heat comes out of the floor or wall. ;-) --- And here I was thinking it was the place the cashiers stuck my moneyafter giving me an ever dwindling amount of "stuff." :-) cb