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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <00AF442D.BD34BD33 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> If one was to read my posting carefully, I hinted at nothing like c.o.v. vs.
> new media but and employing ALL the media outlets.  

Right.

> And let's face it, VMS
> is NOT going to become something that the home-user/layman is going to load
> and run on personal boxes.  

Maybe not the masses, but a few.  I even know a few.  Yes, they are VMS 
people, but people who don't have the space/inclination/time/money to 
run old hardware at home, especially since some effort is required to 
obtain it.  But if some "commodity" PC would run VMS, then they would 
buy one right away, assuming the hardware price was comparable to that 
of other computers they buy and license costs not too much.  (Hopefully, 
the hobbyist license will continue.)

20 years ago, who would have thought that millions of "home users" would 
be running unix?  OK, linux, same same but different.  Most of these 
were probably running Windows before.

> But if it's only new media, count me out of the VMS crowd.  I *occasionally*
> log into LinkedIn 

Same here.

> but that's pretty dead, and its forums are daft and chock
> full of a couple of loonies that lessen the effectiveness of said forums.
> Facebook is nothing more than a billboard for left-wing/right-wing politic-
> opaths, stupid and unfounded tests to determine what myxogastia would best
> describe one's personality, the "Like" this if you agree that some opinion
> aligns with your own irrational and misguided opinion, and the ever popular
> "Please help me get to a new level of "confectionary mascerate adventure'."
> Noise, noise, and more noise.

Indeed.  Life is too short.

What annoys me most about new media is the overhead required to access 
it.  With usenet, by default I see only unread posts, and with a 
keystroke or two (I really like NEWSRDR's use of the EDT key pad in 
conjunction with DEFINE/KEY) I can make an entire thread disappear.  
Content of interest to more than one group can be cross-posted and I 
won't see it more than once.  (I've essentially stopped reading blogs 
which have too many posts which simply point to another blog.  
Occasionally, this can be useful, but it is done way too often.)  I can 
write all my posts in EDT!

I'm still avoiding Twitter and Facebook.  I do follow some blogs, 
although in most cases it would be more convenient to have the same 
discussions in a usenet group.  However, it is only due to RSS feeds 
that I can afford to do so.