Microsoft-Paul Allen

Paul Berger phb.hfx at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 13:41:38 CDT 2018



On 2018-10-23 2:45 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 19:05, Grant Taylor via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> On 10/23/2018 10:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>>> This may be an unfortunate mismatch of English idioms.
>> Fair.
>>
>>> "Out there", to me, means "current, available/on sale/in use now, in
>>> active use and/or maintenance".
>> I'm fairly sure that Solaris and AIX both continue to ship C.D.E.  ;-)
> Solaris is EOL and is no longer in development. However, Solaris 11
> switched to GNOME 2, nearly a decade ago.
>
> AFAIK neither Oracle nor IBM make workstations any more, only headless
> servers, so it's rather academic.
>
>> Hence why I prefer to be excruciatingly clear.
> I generally try, at least with my professional hat on.
>
You can still get a graphics adapter with lower end P9 AIX systems but 
not on the high end machines maybe because there is no place to plug in 
a keyboard.

Paul.


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