jee, all modern stuff out there.

I started on a DEC PDP 11, with my own separate harddisk (5Mb, 24" diameter I guess). Some colleque just arrived from the States with some obscure operating system, designed for handling telephone switches, from AT&T. Unix, they called it, and if I could do something productive with it.

Imaging was about ASCII art, and animation was about making ASCII-Art-Snoopy walk over the operators consoles. 1978. 

Oh, and we had a Cray supercomputer. 64-bit memory banks, up to 4Gb. My simulation programs ran at night only, and lasted a month.

Today, I run a 64-bit system, 4Gb ram, my animations render at night only, and last a month.

There is no real progress in IT.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though