![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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