Re: Learning from history - The UNIX-Hater's Handbook

Thus quoth Peter Quirk on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:30:55PM -0400:
> 
> Sadly, the lessons of this text are seldom taught in Universities. On a
> recent tour of colleges with my son to select a computer science school, I
> had a conversation with the Dean of Undergraduate CS studies at a
> prestigious school. The Dean told us that the school focused on Linux,
> Solaris and Java. I asked what my son might learn about new technologies
> like C# and .NET during his four years at the school. "Nothing, if we can
> help it!" was the answer.

A University should teach theoretical Computer Science. This would include
a class on the principles underlying Operating Systems. Students should
also learn a bit about OSes like Multics, MVS, VMS, Unix and even Windows. 

My first CS classes were 20 years ago. We were taught some theory and then
given an account on the VAX which ran Unix with a book on the Pascal 
programming language and a very short Unix tutorial.

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

-- 
	wat heb je nodig bij een uitzichtloos leven? euthanasie?
	nee, windows.
	van microsoft?
	nee, van glas.