Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Knowing too Much

This probably a new idea for most people. Knowing too much?

Knowing how to do Software Development, for most people, would make them know too much. And they carefully stay away from learning this.

I must carefully delineate between two types of people: computer people and ordinary people. The first is at home with the insides of digital computers, the second is not.

When I was studying Electronic Engineering at the U of Illinois, back in the Fifties, they did not have a course on Digital Computers. Digital technology was too strange for them, and they stayed away from it.

When Solid State arrived in 1980, the Vacuum Tube was made obsolete, and I no longer had a job. But Digital Computer and Software Development skills were highly desirable.

Guess what I did?

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