[PLUG] Apology.

[David Jacoby]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:13:16PM -0500, Jonathan Sergent wrote:
> > I think lack of devotion to any one platform (and willingness to work
> > on many of them) is a good sign.  With enough experience, you begin to
> > realize that all platforms suck, just in different ways.

> If you think some of the modern environments suck, try their
> predecessors.  There are plenty of places from which ancient flavors
> of Windows can be resurrected (and ancient versions of Linux and *BSD,
> too). Even more enlightening to me were my recent experiences
> struggling with the text editors of RSTS/E V7.0 (TECO) and VM/ESA 2.4.0
> (XEDIT). And I'm working on getting an account on a VMS box to see what
> there is to learn from there. =) Get simh and see for yourself.

It isn't worth it. I'm working with an OpenVMS system at work, and the
things it doesn't have are just amazing. I miss "." and "..". Fear it.
Fear it. It doesn't help that, after about 2 months of poking around and
looking in a book called the VMS Users Guide, I now know more about VMS
than anyone else in my workplace. 

> \end{obligatory-retrocomputing-plug}
> Bill

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Dave Jacoby    jacoby@csociety.purdue.edu