Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 14:20:33 JST James Morris
   Just tripped across this blast from the past: my first published article in an .au electronics magazine.
   
   Remember paper magazines? No? Ok.
   
   
   
   #hamradio #amateurradio #satellite #electronics
   • Embed this notice
     James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 05:29:19 JST James Morris

     in reply to
     From the same era, when writing a GUI app in Linux probably meant buying a shelf full of X programming books. I was really, really, into satellites.
   • Embed this notice
     James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 06:46:36 JST James Morris

     in reply to

     • penguin42
     @penguin42 Yep, that may have been a commercial library for Linux, before an open source equivalent existed. Prior to that I was using Xwt and even raw X. The later releases of various open source GUI libraries and desktops was such an major breakthrough at the time.
   • Embed this notice
     penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 06:46:37 JST penguin42

     in reply to

     @jmorris Motif - fancy....

   • Embed this notice
     James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 06:47:50 JST James Morris

     in reply to

     • penguin42
     @penguin42 actually Xt, not wt.
   • Embed this notice
     penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 03:25:27 JST penguin42

     in reply to

     @jmorris Yeh, I think I used raw X for the stuff I played with in the mid 90's.

     James Morris likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 03:25:50 JST James Morris

     in reply to

     • penguin42
     @penguin42 kernel programming was no more difficult
   • Embed this notice
     penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 09:54:22 JST penguin42

     in reply to

     @jmorris It's a bit different isn't it; I mean with X you'd pick up that pile of books that everyone had, and a few examples and you had everything there was, and the API wasn't that hard. The early kernel perhaps wasn't that much harder; it's grown a little since then, people keep feeding it!

     James Morris likes this.