[Chester LUG] Geeky spot!

[Les Pritchard]

LOL, love it! I wouldn't have thought a 4 year old would have big enough
hands to master all those emacs key combinations ;-)

On 25 October 2010 15:41, Richard Smedley <smedley358 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 25/10/10 15:26, Dan Lynch wrote:
> > Get the kids
> > learning Bash commands early, that's the future hehe :)
>
> Back in the 90s I gave my 4yr-old daughter an old PC [1]
> running a lightweight window manager - however I didn't
> use a display manager; she had to log in and type startx
> to get the gui up. She also had Emacs for writing stories.
>
> The idea behind this, what some may call wilful cruelty,
> was that although she'd probably use a GUI throughout
> most of her life, if a computer at any time dropped
> her to the command line (if the X-Window-server failed),
> or if tech support asked her to open a terminal, she
> wouldn't be phased by it, as it would be something every
> day.
>
> We should never over-simplify things for kids - simplify
> them just enough, and no more :)
>
>  - Richard
>
> [1] It may have been something as fast as a Pentium I.
>    I remember running a GUI once on a 486, maxed out
>    to 12MB RAM - it wasn't fun :-/
>
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