10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
10:04 p.m.
At 2:38 PM -0700 6/10/09, Mark Davidson wrote:
I have a HP PA-RISC box under my desk at work, but it's not plugged
into the network. I scavenged it to refresh my HP-UX skills. I used
to be an HP-UX Sys Admin, same with AIX, SunOS and Solaris, which is
why I dislike AIX as well. I really love Solaris, but am now stuck
with Linux and Windows.
I've managed to escape using Vista. I work for a major corporation,
and they refuse to downgrade to Vista.
I haven't done development for the Mac since the System 8 days. All
of my programming on Mac OS X has been in Perl, Ruby, and a little
Ada95.
Yes, and I use that. I think most here know what a rabid OpenVMS
supporter I am, but I've started to loose hope, and question my
continued support of the OS.
I have yet to have time to check out OpenSolaris. Most of my time
has been spent on Solaris 2.6, and 8 with a little time on 10. I
also spent a *LOT* of time with SunOS both on Sun systems, and on
Auspex servers.
While was responsible for a couple SGI boxes at a previous job, I
didn't get to really play with them. When I got my R5k/180 o2 (the
really crappy version) with very little RAM about 6 years ago, I was
blown away by what it could do.
Zane
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Zane H.
Healy<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
No kidding. I remember booting the Linux kernel on floppies (I think
it was v0.99 or something like that), and I also remember the joy I
felt when I booted Yggdrasil Linux and saw X come up. Before that, I
had to use either SCO Open Desktop or Interactive ix/386 (both of
which were horribly expensive) on my Northgate 386.
0.12 boot and root floppies here. In fact Linux is *WHY* I first got
Internet access, and at the time, even though I was working for the
US Navy in Washington DC, that took a lot of effort. X-Windows just
about drove me crazy. I tried 2 different ET-4000 based cards in my
486/33, and neither agreed with my computer. I was on cloud 9 the
day the version that would run on my Trident card was released! Of
course then 8MB started feeling cramped and before long I was running
with 20MB of RAM.
just as soon
use OpenBSD, Solaris, or even IRIX. OTOH, I'd
rather run Linux
than AIX or HP-UX, but that's just a
question of preferences. :-)
Oh, if I could, I'd haul one of my HP PA-RISC boxes down to work and
use that, but I work for McAfee and security about hardware here is
incredibly tight. I could easily bring it in here, but it would be a
major pain to get it back out of the building. Windows - It
is a mess, and it is Microsoft
Yow. Vista. Mac OS X - It
is a resource hog, and I question the efficiency of the
microkernal, especially based on tests against Linux.
True, but what a development framework! :) OpenVMS - The
Corporation(s) owning it trying to kill it and starving it
for resources. I fear that HP has decided to kill it off, in a slow and
painful manner.
Yes, but at least you can get a decent semi-free license for it. Solaris -
I'm concerned about its continued viability, as such I'm less
likely to use it in the future.
I'd love to see this continue... OpenSolaris can be a lot of fun. IRIX - I
wish it wasn't a dead end, as it is really an
amazing OS and it
ran on amazing hardware.
Damn... you hit that one on the head.