[Info-vax] VAX/VMS V1, V1.5 or anything older than V5

[MG]

On 31-5-2012 13:30, Kulin wrote:
> Actually, and you keep misquoting it, I quoted myself properly,
> albeit not fully, as the original line was, and still is, in the
> thread.

Properly would be fully, don't you think?


>> I don't remember exactly what I tried, it has been a few months
>> ago.  It could've been OS/390, I don't remember anymore.
>
> Ah! I see the problem. You can't read.

Where did I say that I tried Hercules on OS/390?  I was replying
to this:
	"Hercules itself is the emulator component. The OS and
	program products are other components."


> As above, the question was "What platform(s) do you want to run
> Hercules on?" but you seem to be answering a question I didn't ask,
> since you wrote "it could've been OS/390", you're answering the
> question what OS do you want to run on Hercules, but I didn't ask
> that, and no,

Not true, you did.  Again, I was answering the aforementioned quote.


> But it's not going to, because after I send this you're going to
> magically appear in my killfile.


> So many idiots, so little time...

You seem very upset, how come?  I had no idea you would get so
--- for a lack of a better term --- 'emotional.'


> Was the problem that:
>
> [...]
>
>  7) You're a complete idiot and can't follow directions?

You tend to get real offensive, real fast, I notice.  Rather
hotheaded and pushy, how come?  I was under the impression
that you replied in an off-topic fashion into this thread,
not the other way around, correct?

Also, hilariously enough, didn't you earlier write the following?

	"If you have any interest, the guys on the yahoo groups
	are super helpful and almost never say RTFM."

(Are you part of those groups, by any chance?)


> See? That's the kind of information you could have given. So
> I'mbetting on number 7 but maybe you'll surprise us.

Why did you even mention IBM in a thread about VMS?  I still
do not entirely understand that.  Why don't you post on the
IBM Usenet groups?  One would think --- or typically assume ---
that there would be a bit more interest for it there.


> I was trying to help you since you expressed an interest in
> running Hercules.

I must admit, it's a rather unorthodox manner of helping
someone. Or, is this like the Yehovah's Witness way of
'helping' someone?


> But you seem to be interested in playing word games.

Reading comprehension equates "word games"...?


> Yourcomment was System Z isn't a good general purpose OS.
> Thatis incorrect.

What is incorrect about it?  Wouldn't that in the first place
be my opinion?  Secondly, didn't you yourself state that there
is no (good) desktop?

I'm very comfortable with CLIs, but a total absense of a desk-
top in the year 2012 is rather limiting.  I don't normally
run ERP, gigantic databases or whatever at home.  I tend to
also do other things with my computers, plus I just so happen
to have an interest for graphics (VMS might not be state of
the art in this regard, but at least there's Open3D/OpenGL,
Motif and GTK+ ports, which is good enough for me).


> You seem to be distracted easily. Maybethat's why you
> can't get anything built, installed, running, etc. Bye!

What "anything" would that be and how come that I'm "easily
distracted"?  I'm not 'distracted' enough to tell that this
is a thread about VMS, as the thread title clearly indicates:

	"VAX/VMS V1, V1.5 or anything older than V5"


By the way, is it Fritz Wuehler or Kulin... or MPD?

  - MG