Jeffrey Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com> wrote: I'm about the same. My timeline: 1979 born 1988 first computer: Soviet PDP-11 clone, first language: PDP-11 assembly 1995 first introduced to UNIX 1996 first live encounter with a VAX 1998 started maintaining my own version of VAX UNIX 2000 fully converted to it 2002 thinking about designing and building a new VAX CPU on an FPGA MS