[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <415d83aa-3192-41ac-b4f5-657181472adf at l22g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
	yyyc186 <yyyc186 at hughes.net> writes:
> On Apr 7, 1:28 am, "Bob Eager" <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>> > They aren't processes, they are threads.  Processes have birth
>> > certificates, death certificates and  unique IDs no matter what OS you
>> > are talking about.  The registrar assigns the ID while recording the
>> > genetic lineage of the process.  The registrar also periodically
>> > checks for the continued existence of the process once it has been
>> > created.  It handles the cases of untimely death which occurred
>> > without notification.
>>
>>
>>You ruly are ignorant - or high on something.
> Quite the contrary.  I got an education at colleges back in the day
> when qualified instructors actually worked there.  Higher education is
> an oxymoron these days when it comes to IT programs.  They only talk
> about what the Gartner Group has been paid to sell, not about system
> design and the merrit of one path over another.
> It's a very sad epitaph to what was once a curriculum looked up to by
> many.
> Your above comment shows that such concepts aren't even discussed in
> colleges these days.  It's very sad if parents are actually paying to
> send their children there.

You talk like he is some college freshman.  I don't agree with you and
I have been working with computers for 40 years.  While I agree that
much of CS/CIS education is lacking, none of that lack equates to your
arguments for the demise of VMS.  We used VMS here, in my department,
until about two years ago.  Didn't help a bit.  Even the professors
who were using the machine in their classes considered it an obsolete
system, just like the COBOL they were using it to teach.

bill

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