What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2121
Oh yes... never expect them to think. By suggesting to them that they use one particular format, the folkloric experience (*) will exaggerate to insistence on...
In Win3.1 the first loaded .dll of a given filename was used by all later apps looking for that named .dll- even if it was the wrong version. So if...
Yes. And they still do, no matter how lovey the shortcuts are.
Yes. And a timesharing system that does its job well, give each and every user who has logged on the sense that the user "owns" everything on that machine, CPU, disks, tape drives, core, etc.
Sigh! The only difference is how far you have to walk to touch the CPU....from the average user's point of view.
Nope. I was thinking of those schools who were having their kiddies work on home-grown stuff. The only stuff we've heard about is most of what ended up in the commercial biz.
Tell me af***ingbout it.
No, it does not have to be all things to all people. All the common standard interface has to do is provide the new user the ability to get ramped up within a reasonable amount of time. If an OS has the ability to run any bloody user interface that any body defines, there is no way to bootstramp yourself.
Oh, no. The last thing I need is another OS to learn at the moment. I do better if I watch it work. I'm not good at fooling around anymore. Thanks, anyway.
BAH
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2122
Alt Folklore Computers from Newsgroups