As an old, grizzled sysadmin who still deals with physical infrastructure and legacy systems, I can totally relate to this. I also like to think that all of O’Brien’s hacks that save the day in DS9 were made possible by Ro Laren showing him the way.
As an old, grizzled sysadmin who still deals with physical infrastructure and legacy systems, I can totally relate to this. I also like to think that all of O’Brien’s hacks that save the day in DS9 were made possible by Ro Laren showing him the way.
And also a bit like integrating your legacy systems into the new “improved” systems.
Don’t forget there was a language change there as well.
Actually come to think of it, I bet there’s something on the Enterprise that still runs COBOL.
Maybe that’s why the holodeck kept trying to kill everyone!