While what Tom says is definitely true, there are some people
out there that do need to learn some of the "older" stuff.

A couple of years ago, I was in a hp-ux class.  Some of my classmates
who were Windows System Admins, etc were having extreme difficulties
just traversing directories.   It was discovered that they had never
used a command line operating system before!   Even with windows,
there are times when you do need to get to a DOS prompt and traverse
directories!

That was the 2nd time in my life that I felt "old".



On 1 Dec 2005 Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]> wrote

Date sent:      	Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:22:37 -0500
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> At 02:37 PM 12/1/2005, Brian Donaldson wrote:
> >No kidding. Most of these kids are a bunch of scary deadheads who wouldn't
> >know the difference between an inter-block gap and a write ring.......
> >
> >Ask anyone of them if they know what a punch card is....
> 
> Yeah, but why should they? If you are never going to hang a tape or punch a 
> card, who cares? Most people under the age of 45 can't start a car with a 
> manual choke (probably don't know what a manual choke even is), but that 
> doesn't prevent them from being perfectly good drivers.
> 
> --
> Tom Brandt
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> Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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