18 Aug
2014
18 Aug
'14
1:06 p.m.
+1. I'm on a few lists and there's always one or two guys that have to be
pedantic and play semantics police. Just like going to engineering school
or working in IT, it seems to come with the territory. Do press on and take
comfort that at least as many people who are complaining, perhaps even
more, will find your work interesting and useful. Thanks for your time and
I for one didn't mind making the inductive leap to discern that you were
talking about MICROSOFT Windows.
Best,
Sean
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Jason Scott <jason at textfiles.com> wrote:
How about if I make a reply to thank you for reminding
me that the vast
majority of my work is not arranging scans, organizing material, or
collecting information, but working to dissuade people that every single
vintage computer enthusiast is not necessarily an autistic spectrum-edge
semantic warrior?
How about me replying to say that this thread was about getting something
done, making the effort to scan history in and make it available to the
widest amount of people, only to be given the cherry on top of you doing
literally nothing for the planet?
How about you try to find another avenue supporting knowledge of this
still-untapped culture, beyond "I am 3000 years old and like to argue?"
Would these replies be adequate and permitted?
On Aug 17, 2014 7:26 PM, "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to>
wrote:
> I am very pleased to announce, and be done with, the scanning of a
> small stack of CompuServe Magazine, the magazine sent to subscribers
> of the online service of the same name. There are 19 issues in all,
> various months from 1990, 91 and 92...
> Cool. I wasn't on CompuServe
then (and I didn't work there until
1994), but I have one issue from when I _was_ a member, March 1986. I
should scan it and add it to the pile.
Much the same content, but all pre-Windows.
While I realize that 99.9% of everyone who uses the term "Windows" is
referring to certain current operating systems,
TSX-Plus had "Windows" support for multiple jobs which
used the same terminal on the PDP-11 well before 1986.
Of course, refreshing the screen using a serial terminal at
9600 baud could take one or two seconds and the method
was to use "<CTRL/W>n", but that does not distract from
the fact that TSX-Plus had full blown "Windows" support
far in advance of the PC systems.
Please DO NOT make any responses an argument over
the current "Windows" features. I simply wanted to correct
the record and that "Windows" support originated long before
1986 and probably with more than just TSX-Plus. If there
are any replies, please do so ONLY to mention any other
operating systems that supported "Windows" before 1986
and how it was done.
Jerome Fine
Ethan
Dicks wrote:
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote: