When I started (Sun 1 era), it was all we had. No internet. No USENET. No BBSes. No real magazines. Dr Dobbs and Byte.
Also, no one to talk to. The little group I was in was the “cutting edge”. So we had to make it all up. We were normally a VAX shop, rest of the company was running off the CDC mainframe. We were also just getting early PCs.
“man -k” was your friend.
We pretty much also never had any training. Biggest regret was I think they sent the wrong guy to learn the Lisp machines (TI Explorers).
Very hard to pick up, and the engineer they sent simply didn’t have the CS background or inner geek drive to really exploit their potential. They basically taught him some high level, entry level expert system (likely CLIPS or OPS5 based) and that was it.
So they pretty much sat idle while we hammered on the Suns. Too bad.
Double ditto.
When I started (Sun 1 era), it was all we had. No internet. No USENET. No BBSes. No real magazines. Dr Dobbs and Byte.
Also, no one to talk to. The little group I was in was the “cutting edge”. So we had to make it all up. We were normally a VAX shop, rest of the company was running off the CDC mainframe. We were also just getting early PCs.
“man -k” was your friend.
We pretty much also never had any training. Biggest regret was I think they sent the wrong guy to learn the Lisp machines (TI Explorers).
Very hard to pick up, and the engineer they sent simply didn’t have the CS background or inner geek drive to really exploit their potential. They basically taught him some high level, entry level expert system (likely CLIPS or OPS5 based) and that was it.
So they pretty much sat idle while we hammered on the Suns. Too bad.