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The elephant? 
Win 95 was the point when I knew that they had totally lost the plot.
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oh.. so Win3.1 was so much better?! And everything went downhill ever since? 
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I didn't do development on Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, Xp... I used them as necessary.
I cut my teeth on X Windows, Motif and C. I was appalled when I ran into Win32. I was less appalled at mfc. Running OpenVMS, Ultrix (google it), Sun/os, HPUX, AIX, these NEVER went down. EVER. Well, there was that time when the RAID was unplugged, but hey, reasonable....
This crap is from management and "policy" decisions.
Seriously, I want to remove the blood pressure medicine from the MS managers making these asinine decisions. I want to sit in their office and right as they are about to push the Send button, I'm going to pull the f'ing power cord and slap them with it (sorry JSOP, you gave me inspiration). I want to do this until they weep and surrender or have an aneurysm.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So you're saying that MS went wrong when they licensed Xenix to SCO and focused on DOS? Ahh.. MS Xenix ... Unix running in 256Kb RAM with a 10 MB HD. Hard to believe. But true.
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there's that and then the full retard on Windows 10....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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k5054 wrote: Unix running in 256Kb RAM with a 10 MB HD. Hard to believe. But true.
Luxury!
PDP-11, 128kb, 2.5MB disk pack (yes, removable hard disks, 2 drives but one only worked most of the time.)
Even ran in 64k (though a bit unstable) when one of the core mem cards got a bit flaky and was sent to DEC for repair (yes they actually repaired memory back then.)
Most of the time though ran AT&T Unix v6, v7 worked bt too much of a memory hog and didn't provide anything new that was required.
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We once had six guys working, all at once, on a PDP-11 with RSX-11M+ and 1MB of RAM. You could look at the memory layout display and see six text editors open, each using just a little bit of memory. I thought it was impressive back then and even more so now.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I used to work with Xenix on an Altos 2000 (386 processor, can't remember the spec. but it wouldn't be much) and it wasn't too shoddy in terms of performance.
It was never my favourite flavour of UNIX but it did a job which is more than can be said of some more modern OS's.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yes, MS doubles down again. New update rolls out, resets all settings. Power management keeps turning off my usb devices.
More buffoonery...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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With great sadness I have to announce that CodeProject founder C.Maunder has decided to stop maintaining the website and that CodeProject will be shutdown next week. While on vacation C.Maunder met a gorgeous Polynesian girl, decided to marry her and spend the rest of his life on an island in the South Pacific (without internet!). The details of exactly how and when the shutdown will take place are not clear yet, but will be communicated soon, probably tomorrow.
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Not to worry, I am moving it to my Pi. Should be on line shortly.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Ah, what a relief, but I hope you will Dockerize everything properly 
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microservices
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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No no, Micronesian services are the best 
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No problemo
sudo apt update
sudo apt install Micronesian-services
sudo apt run-away
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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So the ownership of the site shall be decided in a "discussion" between JSOP and OriginalGriff.
May he who has the fastest gun or sheep win.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It seems JSOP was already preparing and stocking up on ammunition, so I fear the worst for poor old Griff 
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Sheepies can move pretty fast under the right conditions, you know.
And they can fly, so they will have the High Ground: sheep aircraft - YouTube[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just an AWOL Combat Ewe ... you wanna see a Supersonic VTOL Ram (with Vectored Flatulence) in full ground attack loadout.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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RickZeeland wrote: C.Maunder met a gorgeous Polynesian girl, decided to marry her and spend the rest of his life on an island in the South Pacific (without internet!).
I'm gratified to see that Chris has his priorities right.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hmmmm,
I just checked and http://www.islandproject.com/ is available. That would actually be a great retirement plan. Where do I sign up?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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The details of exactly how and when the shutdown will take place are not clear yet, but will be communicated soon, probably tomorrow.
I guess it will be tomorrow your time, but 1st of April his time. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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