28 Jan
2002
28 Jan
'02
3:55 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Smith
Hear Hear. Though, I may listen when Athlons have
casters
and a respectable console firmware with "deposit" and
"examine" commands, at least. Bonus points if you can't get
them to run windows should your life depend on it.
Ehh -- I never actually had thought this may become necessary, but...
Since there was a somewhat nasty response to the original post which this was in reply, I
should state clearly that I'm at least half-joking ;) On the other hand, I _would_
find any system which meets the above requirements more impressive than one that does
not.
I'd also like to offer a sincere (and hopefully non-offensive *fingers crossed*)
request to all the people on this list who've been having (occasionally personal)
flame-wars recently to lighten up some.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
28 Jan
28 Jan
9:36 a.m.
Can't he'p m'sef.
I've always considered Main-frame and mini collectors to be
penis_transferral_fixated. Joke, joke joke. :^))
Wasn't William F Burroughs reference to "Steely Dan" along those lines ?
The world is waiting for a band called "Big Blue" or "Big Iron".
On the other hand MY TRS80 5meg HD is bigger than your XT,
and my pre-Sprint Qume power supply is known to dim lights in
the neighborhood. And it don't use no steenking, cheating, 220V
power source.
Yes, thank you, I will have another tot of that cognac.
Lawrence
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)mts.net
-----Original
Message-----
From: Christopher Smith
Hear Hear. Though, I may listen when Athlons
have casters
and a respectable console firmware with "deposit" and
"examine" commands, at least. Bonus points if you can't get
them to run windows should your life depend on it.
Ehh -- I never actually had thought this may become necessary, but...
Since there was a somewhat nasty response to the original post which this was in
reply, I should state clearly that I'm at least half-joking ;) On the other
hand, I _would_ find any system which meets the above requirements more
impressive than one that does not.
I'd also like to offer a sincere (and hopefully non-offensive *fingers crossed*)
request to all the people on this list who've been having (occasionally
personal) flame-wars recently to lighten up some.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
29 Jan
29 Jan
7:33 a.m.
New subject: DesqView
No wonder has mentioned this, so I thought I would throw it into the Classic
mixer:
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/27/1950244.shtml
Quote:
"It seems Symantec (purchasers of former company Quarterdeck) has release
DeskView/X into public domain and can be downloaded now. DesqView/X was a
GUI and OS extender that installed into DOS very much like MS Windows does.
This little GUI can run X-Windows and MS Windows 3.x software and can even
gateway serve MS Windows applications to remote X terminals. It was way
ahead of its time and is a pretty decent toy to play with if you have a old
486 laying around. Anyways there is a petition being started that is
petitioning Symantec to release the source code as OpenSource. I think this
is a really good idea and could possiably help alot of other existing
projects like WINE for example. It can load X and rexec X apps with 16mb RAM
for Pete sakes!"
--
Gareth Knight
Amiga Interactive Guide - the largest Amiga history site on the net
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