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Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation



On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:50PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> I'm a little confused here :  In the american public education system
> "K" stands for "Kindergarten" (ie 5-6 year olds) and "10" would be
> 10th grade, or a high-school sophomore (15-16 year olds).  Middle
> school is grades 6-8 and high school is 9-12.  

This is not neccessarily true, it varies from school district to school
district. At my school district (Caeser Rodney District in Kent County,
Delaware) we didn't have a Middle School and Junior High was grades 7-8.
Surrounding school districts mostly had Middle Schools, but the grades
varied from district to district.

> I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent)
> because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or
> computers in general) work.  I started out with DOS 3.3 in 7th grade,
> and to tell the truth I didn't learn anything other than windows until
> I started college (I had a brief glimpse of Solaris, but not enough to
> understand that there was something other than MS and Apple :-)).

I don't know about that, when I was in 3rd grade (1979) they sent the TAG
kids to use a timesharing system at Delaware State College. I don't
remember what system it was using (not UNIX, the commands were more verbose,
ex. COPY instead of cp. Also I think I remember it being all capitals but
I can't remember.) In any case we became fairly profecient on it.

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