On 03/11/18 22:49, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sat, 3 Nov 2018 14:38:03 +0000 J Martin Rushton > <martinrushto...@btinternet.com>, CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> > wrote: > >> >> >> From: J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> >> To: centos@centos.org >> Message-ID: <8a7a2aea-33da-9f3c-00a1-c6471fa02...@btinternet.com> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024 >> References: <20181102200256.ga18...@mutt.melvilletheatre.net> >> <20181102203540.6de5326c2...@sharky3.deepsoft.com> >> <f664e653-a03c-3604-cec5-bcaadf9bd...@kicp.uchicago.edu> >> <20181103023156.b332d26c2...@sharky3.deepsoft.com> >> In-Reply-To: <20181103023156.b332d26c2...@sharky3.deepsoft.com> >> >> On 03/11/18 02:31, Robert Heller wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> Yeah, there are very few of us that completely skipped >>> MS-DOS/MS-Windows/MacOS-Clasic and *never* used a graphical file manager or >>> any of the eye-candy that people now believe is "standard" or "normal". I >>> went from VMS on a VT<whatever> to a VAXStation 2000 to a VAXStation 3000, >>> to >>> DECStation 5000, to Linux, with some time spent on CP/M-68K and OS-9/68000, >>> as >>> well as SunOS, IRIX, etc. *I* have never owned a machine running any >>> verison >>> of MS-Windows (I did have a box that dual booted MS-DOS and Linux). >>> >> >> VTs? How about a VAX 11/782 with two LA120s, one per CPU. :-) >> >> There were advantages in hardcopy consoles when dealing with system >> crashes or boot problems. > > I did use a LA120 on a PDP-15...
Ah, I only ran RSX on a PDP-11. Did you ever come across the SB "Shoe Box"-11 systems? We used them as graphics processors on CAD workstattions linked to the VAX by RS232 serial lines. >> >> Oh, I will confess to once owning W95 and W98 machines, but I do >> remember finally issuing the command "# rm -r /C". >> > -- J Martin Rushton MBCS
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