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by jerrytsai
2209 days ago
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Ah, the 1970s and 1980s. Imagine a world with no cell phones or Internet. How are you going to get your debugging help now? StackOverflow doesn't exist. To add to this list: - Manuals. Reading carefully through the documentation was necessary for mastery. Both hardware and software. These were often closely associated-- you couldn't always just concentrate on one and abstract away the other. |
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Plus, turnover was less, so you had institutional knowledge over long periods maintained by peers and clients alike.
In the mainframe environment in which I worked, we had a lot of company-specific and proprietary systems and tools that outsiders couldn't have helped with, anyway. And they beat the crap out of IBM's packages.
And no live Internet connection doesn't preclude dial-up.
And IBM tended to document the hell out of their stuff.