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Totally sour grapes, but I sure get tweaked when I see people doing cool things with toys that are ostensibly available but that I can't buy yet because...
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I remember DEC sending out a fix for the "day 10000 bug". Some system counter would wrap around if it was up for 10000days (27years)! Compare it with the Windows95 49day bug that nobody ever reached.
Yet people criticised the VAX. I guess every computer has its flaws (nothing is perfect!), but was the criticism of the VAX justified? (Assuming uptime and reliability means anything, and compared to what followed it. Windows NT? C'mon.) It is just one more bit of evidence that tells me that many of the supposed "experts" on matters of computing are anything but. There's FUD and then there's just people who just have…
VMS is like a mini-mainframe. You aren't supposed to play with it, you get given specific permissions by some operator, you do as you are told, you don't mess around. And you do things the VMS way. If you want to know the VMS way there are 100ft of grey manuals on the shelf telling you.
Unix has a play with and enjoy the jokes philosophy.
In my experience VMS people hate Unix more than Unix people hate VMS
There's a Vaxstation 3, DECvoice unit, two hard drives, and a tape drive in an enclosure on wheels. There's also a VT420 terminal. Pictures are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/puerexmachina/sets/721576229810...
If anyone is interested, or could put me in touch with VAX collectors, please email me. My contact info is in my profile.
Totally sour grapes, but I sure get tweaked when I see people doing cool things with toys that are ostensibly available but that I can't buy yet because...
Its funny. My jaw dropped initially, not because of the cool software hack, but because here was a fellow that had managed to get two raspis!
Totally sour grapes, but I sure get tweaked when I see people doing cool things with toys that are ostensibly available but that I can't buy yet because...
Its not just you. I haven't gotten mine yet either. Should be coming along now from Newark any day now... Its funny. My jaw dropped initially, not because of the cool software hack, but because here was a fellow that had managed to get two raspis!
OT, but I'm getting desperate to find a home for the VAX described below before my dad scraps it. He purchased it several years ago from a man in north Georgia who said it spend the 1990s answering the phone at a utility company. My dad kept it in his classroom while he was a high school technology teacher, but now that he's no longer teaching it's gathering dust on his carport. There's a Vaxstation 3, DECvoice unit,…
Totally sour grapes, but I sure get tweaked when I see people doing cool things with toys that are ostensibly available but that I can't buy yet because...
Totally sour grapes, but I sure get tweaked when I see people doing cool things with toys that are ostensibly available but that I can't buy yet because...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yet people criticised the VAX. I guess every computer has its flaws (nothing is perfect!), but was the criticism of the VAX justified? (Assuming uptime and reliability means anything, and compared to what followed it. Windows NT? C'mon.) It is just one more bit of evidence that tells me that many of the supposed "experts" on matters of computing are anything but. There's FUD and then there's just people who just have…
VMS is different from UNIX. VMS is like a mini-mainframe. You aren't supposed to play with it, you get given specific permissions by some operator, you do as you are told, you don't mess around. And you do things the VMS way. If you want to know the VMS way there are 100ft of grey manuals on the shelf telling you. Unix has a play with and enjoy the jokes philosophy. In my experience VMS people hate Unix more than Uni…
I didn't remember much hate between the UNIX/VAX people in my org as they were pooled together. I think everyone agreed that VAX/VMS was superior though when it came to getting stuff done and leaving it done.
Totally sour grapes, but I sure get tweaked when I see people doing cool things with toys that are ostensibly available but that I can't buy yet because...
But yeah, I still want Raspberry Pi