3 Oct
2000
3 Oct
'00
10:50 a.m.
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
You know you're a VMS bigot when:
You think case sensitivity is some ones idea of an April Fools joke
Ah, but case sensitivity makes it more difficult for newbies to get the hang
of the OS. Which may or may not be a good thing.
You keep trying to use the EDT keypad in Word.
Oh, please. Word? Surely it should be vi, emacs or Wordstar. :)
You don't understand why e-mail needs to be in a
format that uses half
a megabyte of disk space for a one-page document.
Hmm...one page...that would be, say, 80x25 for a screen, or about 80x65 for
an A4 page. So that's max. 5k. Why *does* it need half a meg. anyway? Word
attachment?
You maintain OpenVMS accounts on your workstation for
coworkers who
have migrated to PCs
I'll have to admit to that one where I was working over the summer. No-one
else used it, though :-(
You think that a command line interface is better than
a GUI
It is, though, isn't it? The only advantage I can (OTTOMH) think of is that a
web browser in a GUI displays pictures :-)
You know you can find out how to use a command by
typing help and get
it
"apropos <keyword>"?
You really can't think of anything Bill Gates
actually invented
Did he invent anything?
Back to lurking now :-)
Dan
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