vintage computers in active use

Rod Smallwood rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com
Fri May 27 07:03:33 CDT 2016



On 27/05/2016 10:33, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> Toby Thain wrote:
>
> [..]
>>> Yes, this is only one of the reasons I don't like Windows, but the
>>> germanys government has decided to shut down any nuclear plant anyways
>>> after the fukushima desaster.
>>>
>>> But controlling weapons wth Windoze would be another story.
>>>
>> Not necessarily true. Few weapons (perhaps none, but I'm not an expert
>> on nuclear physics) can do as much harm as a failed nuclear plant.
>>
>> --Toby
>>
>>
> " of Defence systems that co-ordinated
>   intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker
>   support aircraft"
>
>
> Oh, I think those will do.
> ..but I have no problem with IBM Series 1 Computers, I habe a problem
> with Microsoft Windows.
>
> Regards
> Holm
>
I have used the following operating systems:

GeorgeIII ICL 1971
CPM
MSDOS
DOS
DR DOS
OS/8
RSX11-M
RSX11-D
RSTS
MUMPS
MVS
Every version of windows  from 1 to 10
Unix
Ultrix
Most of the Linux distributions
ISIS
TSO

Now will somebody explain to me why windows  is considered not good.

Rod Smallwood



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