10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
8:58 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Jun 10, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
?This attitude is common even here, amongst people who presumably should
know better. ?Just because VMS was around thirty years ago, that means it's
a thirty-year-old OS. ?"Wow, I can't believe we're still using cars.
?They're so old! ?Since there were cars in 1908, that means ALL cars are
from 1908!"
?The other amusing thing about which people here (at least) should know
better is the visibility factor. ?VMS, OS/400, MVS, and VM are
*everywhere*...but people think they're somehow "dead" because the only
thing they see in for sale in WalMart is PCs running Windows. ?Do these
people really believe PCs running Windows process their bank transactions,
maintain hospital databases, or run railroads?
? ? ? ? ?-Dave
Anything without pipes makes me choke and condemn it to a rightful and
speedy death.
I like my 30 year old OSes to at least include my favorite 40 year old
innovation ;)
John
--
"I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS
reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C,
Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
It might seem odd, but I don't know how to use 'ed'. I kinda know
'ex'
due to the fact 'vi' is 'ex' turned from a line editor to a screen
editor. Most of what I know about computers from way back is mostly
limited to UNIX (and that's only because UNIX didn't die like the
other OSes.)
I hate statements like this. ?Died like what OSes? ?MVS? ?VM? ?VSE? There
are a bunch of OSes from back then which are still around.