Re: Re:Re: [Nolug] December meeting

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson_at_home.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:42:25 -0600
Message-Id: <20011219174230.COHP27418.femail46.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>

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On Wednesday 19 December 2001 02:26 am, Joey Kelly wrote:
> >I already knew what kind of systems you worked on 15 years ago.
>
> Heh, I still think "exec file" when I see the .exe extention.
>
> Hey, did you know you can get a card (ISA, or whatever) to plug into
> a PC that wil give you an instance of a VM/CMS account, running in a
> shell? When I get bux, I'm gonna see if I can get one, and bring it
> to the meeting. Talk about 1337 ;-)

It was a 370 shrunk dowm to a handfull of chips. There's web
sites dedicated to s/w emulators, too.

> Come to think of it, I could be 1337 just bringing an install of OS/2
> ;-)

That's still the greatest small-systems OS. WPS was so intuitive,
and an excellent example of the power of an object-oriented UI.

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