![]() Later, 'Multics' was written to hide a great deal of the guts of the system away from the user. They were as much a part of the experience as anything else, and a deep knowledge of how they worked was required. At first, they were open and available to view to the user. ![]() ![]() There were initially many various competing types of 'operating system'. You sit at a screen, and you get N hours of computer time to use. This is at a time when computers were essentially just rooms filled with equipment operated on a time-share basis. They wore white socks and polyester shirts and ties and thick glasses and coded in machine language and assembler and FORTRAN and half a dozen ancient languages now forgotten.' 'The Real Programmers typically came out of engineering or physics backgrounds. ![]() Science fiction mailing lists brought people together as well, which just happened to be a common interest. They created their own slang, their own technical vocabulary amongst themselves, distributing dictionaries amongst each other to create something of a community with a dialect first. ARPAnet in 1969 brought a critical mass of hackers together. ![]()
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