[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Scott Dorsey]

Bob Gezelter  <gezelter at rlgsc.com> wrote:
>Sadly true. It profoundly unsettling to see the lack of underlying knowledg=
>e. Simple foundational knowledge about CPUs, memory, mass storage, networks=
>, operating systems, and other areas is lacking. Often the common thread is=
> ubiquity: Since all of the infrastructure has become commonplace, the ever=
>yday need for understanding has become background.

Our IT department back in 2016 went on a binge of getting rid of anything
that was on the inventory as a "laptop" or "portable computer" that could not
have the hard drive encrypted.

This meant we got rid of a bunch of older machines that were used for
instrument control, which did not boot off a hard drive and therefore
could not be encrypted.

But most interestingly it meant we got rid of a whole bunch of mechanical
slide rule devices (E-6B flight computers) because they could not be
encrypted.

I attempted to get the IT department to actually explain what a computer was
and what wasn't a computer, and to this day I still cannot get them to give
me a definition for what a computer is.  I blame poor elementary school
education for this.
--scott

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