[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

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On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:21:07 +0100
Paul Sture via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2015-03-17, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> > On 15-03-17 07:30, "VAXman- "@SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >
> >> posted to comp.os.vms and also to the VMS-SIG list.  The new-fangled
> >> social media mechanisms might be fine for others but I find them way
> >> too busy with way too much noise to sift through to find anything of
> >> real interest. 
> >
> >
> > For Twitter, the only "noise" you get is from those people you have
> > chosen to follow.
> >
> > So, if you only follow Sue, you would get this:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/mamavms/
> >
> > YOu can follow other people too if you want. With the twitter app
> > (sorry, no VMS version), you get traffic from anyone you follow. You
> > don't see traffic from people you don't follow, unless someone you
> > follow retweets something they found elsewhere.
> >
> > There are serious people on twitter, and not-serious people. Whom you
> > follow dictates the value of twitter to you.
> 
> And if you don't like any of the available Twitter apps you can write
> your own.  The API is published and knocking up a read-only app in
> Python was simple enough when I did it on a course last year.
> 

There's a product idea. All the VSI OpenVMS builds ought to come with
TwitVMS or something like that. You get a scrolling twitter feed across the
top of your terminal whether you like it or not.

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