[Info-vax] How to Avoid Old Software, Old Bugs?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qqkht8$qqi$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> For what you're doing, there is no way you need clustering.  You do it 
> because you want to do it.  A shop that needs clusters can benefit, but 
> not you.

Sure I do, just so that I can connect enough disks.  :-)  Also, rolling 
upgrades are possible.

> I'm used to file versions.  Doesn't bother me.  No such on my WEENDOZE 
> systems, and, that doesn't bother me either.  I'm sure some people 
> really detest them.

They are there for a reason.  If you don't make use of the benefit, that 
is your problem.

> VMS mail is so 1980 or so.  I use Thunderbird, and while it has warts, 
> it's rather well done.  Of course, not on VMS.  Guess that's the killer, 
> huh?

No.  Functionality.  Consider the command
DIR/SIN=<date>/BEF=<date>/FROM=<sender>/SUB=<subject> to select such 
messages.  Can Thunderbird do that?

> Support for any KB is not, as much as I can tell, any part of an OS. 
> Yes, some utilities support the LK keyboard.  For what it's worth, I 
> much prefer the LK KB.  Now, tell me where to get any new ones.

The intrinsic quality of something is independent of whether one can get 
new ones.  Where can I get a cheap painting by Leonardo?  (In my case, I 
have enough spares to last me the rest of my life.)

> I've used SEDT, I think that is the name, in the past.  It's a WEENDOZE 
> based tool.  Pretty much EDT on WEENDOZE.

Why use an OS whose name you mock?

> Replying to you on a WEENDOZE XP system.

Why?