AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, erikc <firewevr@...> wrote:
>
> One thing I have consistently noticed about such posters is the all 
> seem to have middle-eastern sounding names.  Why is that?
> 

Maybe they're in their '70s or '80s now. I remember well anno '77 
when I started to play around with microcontrollers (Z80 then). Being 
a pupil with lots of time and virtually no money (worked thru the 
holidays in a cheese factory to buy my first oscilloscope then ;-) I 
also was after every bit of hard- and software I could get. I have to 
confess that I never bought a copy of CP/M but somehow it found its 
way to my floppy disks (as soon as I was able to afford a floppy 
drive). I had to write my own BIOS (cause the machine was built by 
hand after schematics from a commercial system which I never would 
have be able to buy. Hey, you can still see this system on my web 
pages (http://www.geocities.com/_wsw_/wswcpm.html)).

If at this time there would have been something like today's internet 
(and not only this "conspirative" BBSes of that time ;-) I'm sure I 
would have asked the one or other similar question like we see 
flooding the newsgroups and mailing lists now.

And for their "style" of asking (and showing no sensibility about 
intellectual property): Maybe it has to do with growing up in an area 
of political instability and even war and terror. Let the middle east 
come to a rest, let them write their first programs and see how they 
get stolen by others and I'm sure their mind will change...

But maybe I'm totally wrong either....



I hope you all had some calm days with the ones you love and are 
looking forward to a prosperitive 2008!

Seasons Greetings from Berlin, Germany
Stefan