23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
7:33 p.m.
On August 23, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
It's time for me to look for a job. I've been
unemployed (voluntarily,
happily so) for a month, and re-establishment of a dependable cash flow is
becoming a top priority. Since I'll be finishing college next May, it's
also time to begin looking for my first post-college position.
Can a programmer make a career out of classic computing?
I dunno...I pick up VMS consulting work from time to time. Of
course, it's been on releases of VMS that are merely a few months old,
but to the "outside world" anything that's not Windows is
"classic"
and "obsolete". So YMMV.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
23 Aug
23 Aug
9:01 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
I dunno...I pick up VMS consulting work from time to
time. Of
course, it's been on releases of VMS that are merely a few months old,
but to the "outside world" anything that's not Windows is
"classic"
and "obsolete". So YMMV.
-Dave
That was one of the single most significant M$ marketing coups. What's
funny now is to periodically see Windows products labelled as "legacy"
compared to Linux. Not as often as I might like.
It must leave a bitter taste to those marketers and their PC hardware
industry amen corners who always considered M$ products as immune to
becoming obsolete except when compared to newer M$ products.
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