[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these days?

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In article <zcadnY76nsMkQ8vSnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>On 3/6/2012 10:00 PM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> John Wallace schrieb:
>>
>>> Have you ever done business with National Instruments? No I haven't
>>> either, but everything I hear about them says they sell a range of
>>> quality product at a premium price with a service to match, much like
>>> DEC in the good old days, and that their employees are happy to work
>>> there. How do they do it? Well I suspect at least part of the magic is
>>> that their customers are scientists and engineers not trend-following
>>> and/or bean-counting IT people.
>>
>> NI stuff is (almost) all Weendoze,
>> and most scientists and engineers have the same sheep mentality
>> as everybody else.
>>
>
>Windows works!  It started as something close to rotting manure.

And now it IS rotting manure!



>That was years ago.  Today, it works.  It has worked for the last eight 
>or nine years.  I don't know of any serious competition!

You need to get out more Richard! :)

Mac OS X, Linux and Android?  I recently obtained a 17.3" HP Envy.  It's
a very nice laptop with all the earmarkings of an Apple ripoff -- replete
with a glowing HP logo vis a vis the glowing Apple on the MacBooks.  But,
it still has braindamaged BIOS, came with M$ Virus Collector 7, and it's
stained with M$ logos.  I did manage to get Ubuntu working on it after a
number of days.  Why?  This thing was, for all intents and purposes, made
to be as WEENDOZE biased and anything else hostile as possible.  Hardware
is quite nice; albeit, the trackpad is way sensitive, and too much effort
is needed to click on it to drag and scroll.  I was finally able to get 
its bluetooth adapter working with Ubuntu and now use an old Macally BT
mouse instead.  This Envy touts great audio but let's get real!  It's a
laptop and trying to get real room-filling quality audio is not possible
in the small speaker footprint.  Many here seem to dump on Apple and its
products for being too expensive but it seems HP is trying to imitate the
competition (Apple) more than innovate.  Innovation is Apple's territory
forte! ;)  And M$ is tanning in the Apple's shadow too.  Remember VISTA?
Visual Interface Similar To Apple's?

There a M$ store to soon open in the Freehold Raceway.  I can't wait to
see how much they copy from the Apple Store.  Still, what can it offer?
I'd be worried that I'd be infected with a virus by just walking inside.



>You may sneer and mutter about "click and drool".  I'm happy to finally 
>have a desktop system with software that works and that I can afford.  I 
>have a word processor and a spread sheet.  I could have a database if I 
>needed one.  I even have "Turbo Tax" which has made preparing my income 
>tax return bearable.
>
>Well, as close to bearable as it can be!

A flat tax would make it bearable?  Abolish the unfair tax codes and the
infernal revenue service!
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