[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:51:21 UTC, hamilton at news.individual.net (Bradford
Hamilton) wrote:

> In article <gpu1l0$854$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> >In article <72fekdFpmcofU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill
> >Gunshannon) writes:
> [...]
> >It's not my fault that VMS is not as cool as Porsche.
> > 
> >> Porsche's are anything but lean. 
> >
> >Almost as flat as my thinkpad running OS/2. 
> >
> >> They do perfoem well, but then,
> >> depending on your criteria, so does VMS. 
> >
> >Well, a Porsche is meant to impress people,
> >especially females. Can I do the same with VMS ?
> 
> "Hey baby, want to check out my uptime???"
> :-)
> [...]

Actually, I wrote a nice little uptime class for OS/2. Objects in that 
class just show an icon and a title which is the uptime. You can have 
dozens of instances all over the screen if you want to show off!
-- 
Bob Eager