I also graduated in 1973. However, I learned Fortran IV, Basic, Algol and UNIVAC 1100 Series Assembler. In addition we worked with the first desktop programmable calculators (Monroe,HP,etc.) Of course, most of the work was on punched cards and 110 baud Teletype terminals.

My experience is that advanced mathematics is not needed every day but it is needed sometimes. In my career I've worked in the chemical industry, biomedical engineering and telecom; all as a software engineer. In each I have used calculus at some time. Sometimes it just added insight and others it was absolutely required to do the job. Understanding advanced math certainly doesn't hurt and often helps your career by making you more versatile to your employer.

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace.

80% to 100% of your time? Really? What about sleep people. That generally account for 25% to 33% of most peoples' time.

Actually, I never have forgotten my first. However, UNIVAC made multiple OSs and they differed a lot from each other. My choice is EXEC 8 which was great for the hardware it ran on and the time period it was available in. Indeed, it was one of the first commercial SMP OSs.

Really?? As I understand RAM memory dynamic RAM works as you describe but not static RAM. Which is SMIRAM?

>...or, to be blunt, "do our debugging for us." Hey, its a dirty job but SOMEBODY has got to do it. :-)