[Gllug] where do older sys admins end up?

[John G Walker]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:39:59 +0000 tid <td at bloogaloo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 29 December 2010 16:30, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> As a general point, when I were a lad, the computing field broke down
> into 'programmers'
> and 'operators'. There was a smaller group of 'OS people', who were a
> breed apart. The
> operators were beefy types who could lift a stack of half-inch tapes
> and the programmers were
> strange types who talked about lifos and fifos and punchcards.
> 
> IIRC The 'Sysadmin' moniker appeared in the late 80's.
> 
> Tid

Back in the day, we also had systems programmers, who did some of the
work that sysadmins now do,

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 All the best,
 John
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