I started college in 1993 and my school had a mandatory "Introduction to Unix Computing Environment" class for all incoming engineering freshmen.
We learned the basics of the shell, file system, file editing, AFS ACL's for group projects, and more. It looks very similar to this MIT course which makes sense as our school's computing environment was based on MIT's Project Athena and AFS (Andrew File System)
I looked and the same course is still mandatory for incoming engineering students.
I'm in the semiconductor industry and everything runs on Unix / Linux. Back in 2000 we would get new grads that knew very little about Unix, command lines, or scripting. That kind of stuff is half my job. These days Linux is so popular that most of the new grads know this stuff.
Even though a lot of incoming students would have had PCs by that time, they'd mostly have been running Windows. As you suggest, as I understand it MIT really focused on Project Athena clusters for engineering work and people used PCs more for word processing, etc.
We learned the basics of the shell, file system, file editing, AFS ACL's for group projects, and more. It looks very similar to this MIT course which makes sense as our school's computing environment was based on MIT's Project Athena and AFS (Andrew File System)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena
I looked and the same course is still mandatory for incoming engineering students.
I'm in the semiconductor industry and everything runs on Unix / Linux. Back in 2000 we would get new grads that knew very little about Unix, command lines, or scripting. That kind of stuff is half my job. These days Linux is so popular that most of the new grads know this stuff.