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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Life after Windows 7 |
| Date | 2019-05-21 19:49 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <gkj32cFivprU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2019-05-21, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>>> Personally,
>>> I hope Bill Gates dies screaming in a puddle of his own wastes while
>>> large crowds point and laugh.
>
> I am pleased to report that the first boot of the new x86 port of OpenVMS
> ran this past Monday. Soon all your old vax code will run just fine on
> the latest HP PC server hardware.
I'm deeply impressed, but I'm afraid I left the DEC world shortly after
the VAX started to become popular, and only worked on VMS very briefly (I
wrote a workflow system for our translation department in DCL.) I moved
to Sun & Unix & never returned.
> The whole world is not just like the Windows world.
Oh, indeed. I've never personally owned a Windows machine, and I doubt
I ever will (I've used the abomination, but only when forced to by
employers.)
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Re: Life after Windows 7 Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-21 19:17 +1000
Re: Life after Windows 7 Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-05-21 11:09 +0100
Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-29 18:19 +0100
Re: Life after Windows 7 ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-05-29 21:19 -0500
Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-30 17:24 +0100
Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-06-02 19:11 +0100
Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 10:14 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2019-05-21 12:54 +0200
Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 10:58 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-05-21 12:28 -0400
Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 19:49 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-22 22:30 -0400
Re: Life after Windows 7 Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-07 20:54 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-06-07 23:07 -0400
Re: Life after Windows 7 Ryan Kavanagh <rkavanagh@cs.cmu.edu> - 2019-06-08 12:30 -0400
Re: Life after Windows 7 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-08 10:11 -0400
Re: Life after Windows 7 Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-08 19:31 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-21 10:47 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-21 11:28 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> - 2019-05-21 08:43 -0400
Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-29 18:16 +0100
Re: Life after Windows 7 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-16 23:00 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-16 23:18 +0000
Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-17 08:40 +0000
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