[vcf-midatlantic] OT: people don't understand computers anymore
Christopher Blackmon
ckblackm at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 7 14:31:05 EDT 2016
From: Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>
To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>
Cc: Neil Cherry <ncherry at 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. ;-)
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And here I was thinking it was the place the cashiers stuck my moneyafter giving me an ever dwindling amount of "stuff." :-)
cb
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