Snopes on Ken Olsen

[Michael Sokolov]

Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

> A big reason for the techies and nerds was so they could do
> programming without being constrained by time limits.  And what did they
> programs?  GAMES!

Well, to give just one data point, not me: when I first learned how to
program at the age of 7, in PDP-11 assembly on my first home computer,
Soviet BK0010, I did NOT write any games.  My first program, although
it was not on the BK0010 but on its successor, BK0011, was an operating
system.  So I guess I was destined from the very beginning to be an OS
guy.  (What am I doing now, 18 years later?  Maintaining 4.3BSD-Quasijarus,
an operating system.  And it's for VAX, which is not that far away from
PDP-11, my first instruction set.)

MS