[Info-vax] Dvorak on Itanic

[H Vlems]

On 29 jan, 22:29, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote:
> > H Vlems wrote:
>
> >>> Can you spell WEENDOZE?
>
> >> No, because I'm a foreigner. But the answer is that there ought to be
> >> more E's in the word, right?
>
> > I would have thought that a "foreigner" on c.o.v. would have nothing to
> > do with political boundaries but rather with OS boundaries. A Weendoze
> > weenie would be a foreigner here. A Unix geek would be a foreigner here.
> > But someone with loyalty to VMS would not be a foreigner here.
>
> > However, if a foreigner wishes to be a citizen of c.o.v. , I am sure we
> > could have acceptable rituals that don't hurt too much to let him prove
> > his loyalty to VMS.
>
> > ;-)
>
> Don't you think that the level of pain should be adjusted depending on
> which O/S he is coming from?  MS-DOS would be the bottom of the heap and
> topped by Windoze and then various flavors of Linux and Unix!- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven -
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Umm, I came from the MCP. That's the OS that ruled the Burroughs B5000/
B6000/B7000 Large Systems. Even VMS can learn tricks from the MCP,
even today.