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mtippett | 3 years ago
It was a mixture of VGA CRTs and VT220's. I just missed token ring,
New graduate, started in Australia at $35k. That's about $65k in current dollars. No stock, maybe a bonus.
Manuals were binders or printed books. Builds were managed by the "Configuration Manager", and coordinated nightly. The languages were C, Ada, Assembly.
The network was BNC cables.
Design reviews were a thing, code walk throughs were a thing. People were trying to work out how to apply UML.
Printers will still a mix of dot matrix and lasers.
Design patterns I think, had just become a thing.
Work life balance was okay. Everything was waterfall, so you ended up in death marches semi-regularly.
Linux was just ascending, but big-iron Unixen ruled the dev environment. Microsoft was just trying to work out itself (Microsoft Mail, Lotus 123, Domino)
timr|3 years ago
Don't kick the the cable under your desk, or the network goes down for everyone!