-=> Dumas Walker wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
DW> I also didn't realize they had BASH shells and *nix commands for DOS
DW> back then.
They were pretty limited; the shells were more for making people feel
comfortable that used shells elsewhere, I don't think they supported
scripting 100%. The command line utilities were the basics like tee,cat
diff, grep, tail, ls...
DW> Luckily, there were a few places in the 1990s where one could get a job
DW> with a related degree and then get OTJ training. That is where I
DW> learned most of what I know and used professionally.
My first "real" IT job, I was hired to do billing reconciliation of
call accounting records - basically all Excel. I somehow was then
allowed to do moves, adds and changes on the phone system, then
managing a Novell network and a dial-up wide area network very similar
to Fidonet. I learned all I needed from books and playing around with
spare equipment (and a supportive mentor).
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