Are you a specialist or a generalist?

[Curt at Atari Museum]

I used to be specially generalized, but now I'm generally specialized :-)



Curt



Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-06-20 22:53:12 +1000, river <river at zip.com.au> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>Just wondering if you regard your classic computing skills as
>>specialised or generalised?
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>
>I guess I'm more one of the "specialised" guys, but things evolve over
>time. My preferred architecture changed several times during the last
>years (be it small things like C64, going over to Alpha, Sparc32,
>PA-RISC1.1, DECstations, SGI stuff, now it's VAXen running Linux).
>
>My general *interest* is in all kind of all machines, but due to space
>requirements (and available free time) I'm forced to focus myself.
>Though, I'd *love* to work with old computers (like in a museum) all the
>day, but that's most probably kinda unrealistic...
>
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>>Do you have lots of various old systems with different processors
>>and architectures, or do you specialise in a particular processor,
>>architecture or system?
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>I usually keep my old stuff around, but don't use it all that much.
>Though, I'd *love* to show it off publically, like another guy does.
>(He's opening his little data centre these days, look at
>http://www.vaxman.de/my_machines/computer_room/invitation.html .  This
>link was sent to some DECUS mailing list).
>
>MfG, JBG
>
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