[Info-vax] newVMS, was: Re: [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[AEF]

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 3:50:48 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <f2f79535-2f78-4cab-9983-c8720a11079b at googlegroups.com>,
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> 	AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
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> > On Sunday, December 8, 2013 4:49:47 PM UTC-5, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
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> > Just as a side comment, it seems that every other OS from MS sucks. OK, sucks 
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> > extra. Remember Windows ME? Then XP. Then Vista. Then Windows 7 (according to a 
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> > co-worker it's like XP, but with sucky sharing). Then Windows 8. So to maintain 
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> > the pattern, Win 95 would also suck donkey kong, while Win 98 would be "ok".
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> > AEF
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> I keep seeing this "Vista sucked" stuff.  I don't get it.  I still have
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> two machines running Vista and see no reason to move them to anything
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> else.  They will probably remain Vista systems until the hardware they
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> run on dies.  Then I will have to decide wether or not to do another
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> Vista system as I will still have the licenses.
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> bill
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> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
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My Dad had Vista for a while. It was a royal PITA. Kept hanging. Near invisible fields.

Helpdesk personnel where I work say "Vista sucks". 

My brother-in-law had a lot of trouble patching it recently. The update procedure kept hanging. 

Well, you know: YMMV

AEF