Any Unix users?

[mowens]

I was a Unix user from the mid-80s up until Catia V5 became widespread. I really liked it and got pretty good at using the shell script.

A little Unix history

[Zoffen]

Boomer.

[mowens]

Actually, I'm in generation jones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

We actually had to be smart to be a programmer. 

[Jeff]

We actually had to be smart to be a programmer. 

So how did you skirt the system?
 

[Brad St]

The first place I worked had it in the 80's. slowly went to windows over time and let it go as time went on.

[mowens]

So how did you skirt the system?
 

If you can't be smart you have to be tricky.

[YoDoug]

If you can't be smart you have to be tricky.

I thought it was, "If you are gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough"

[Jeff]

I thought it was, "If you are gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough"

"If you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly!"
Name that movie.

[mowens]

If I was smart, I would have thought of those, too!

[neurosis]

When I started working at this company, they had three Apollo workstations running Cimatron. They were in the process of replacing the Apollo's with a Sun Sparc station which is what I ran Cimatron on for the next two or three years before the move to PC.

I could barely figure my way around those things at the time and had only been using Slackware Linux for a few months. That was in something like 1995ish. I started using FreeBSD as my home O/S in 99ish and beat my head against the wall with that one for at least 10 years.  I'm not sure if anyone uses BSD anymore? 

[mowens]

We tried a CAM system that ran on the Apollo workstation but I can't remember the name. Would have been the late 80s early 90s.

[CNCAppsJames]

I've never even heard of an Apollo Workstation. Only IRIX, SPARC and UNIX.