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jmorris

James Morris

Edited 6 months ago
Just tripped across this blast from the past: my first published article, in an .au electronics magazine.

Remember paper magazines? No? Ok.



#hamradio #amateurradio #satellite #electronics
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jmorris

James Morris

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From the same era, when writing a GUI app in Linux probably meant buying a shelf full of X programming books. I was really, really, into satellites.
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penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

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@jmorris Motif - fancy....

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jmorris

James Morris

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@penguin42 Yep, that may have been a commercial library for Linux, before an open source equivalent existed. Prior to that I was using Xwt and even raw X. The later releases of various open source GUI libraries and desktops was such an major breakthrough at the time.
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@penguin42 actually Xt, not wt.
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penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

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@jmorris Yeh, I think I used raw X for the stuff I played with in the mid 90's.

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James Morris

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@penguin42 kernel programming was no more difficult
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penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

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@jmorris It's a bit different isn't it; I mean with X you'd pick up that pile of books that everyone had, and a few examples and you had everything there was, and the API wasn't that hard. The early kernel perhaps wasn't that much harder; it's grown a little since then, people keep feeding it!

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