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Re: old linux, newer PC, CD settings

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On 3/9/23 10:24 PM, Robert Riches wrote:
> On 2023-03-10, 28C.I874 <28C.I874@noabgba.net> wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>     Still have my VMS manual - about three inches thick
>>     in smallish type  :-)
>>
>>     Now about 64 cores worth of decent Xeon and ...
> 
> Which of the several volumes would that be?  At least in the
> 1980s, the VMS manual was a shelf of binders.  Around a couple of
> decades ago, at a thrift store IIRC, I bought an orange binder
> labeled as follows:
> 
>          VAX/VMS
>          Volume 2A
> 
>          Command
>          Language
>          System Messages
> 
>          Command
>          Language
>          User's Guide
> 
>          Guide to
>          Using Command
>          Procedures
> 

   Mine is a big paperback that seems to
   put all those 'binders' together. All
   you'd ever want to know.

   And it's GOOD NEWS - even nearly 40 years later.
   DEC made a GREAT system - the best of the narrow-
   tie tekkies. Add a few modern tweaks and it's still
   a competitor. Can others can make that claim ?

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