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

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:29:52 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) 
wrote:

> 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.

Same here. And over 30 of that teaching computer science (not IT). I 
still include some stuff about VMS in my courses, too! And about 
UNIX...and other stuff.

I finished my last lecture of a module yesterday with a bit about (and 
demo of) OS/8!

-- 
Bob Eager