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At 10:09 AM 3/1/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I can tell you my next PC will be a MAC.
I have three daughters, two of them have PC's and despite having
extended service contracts and the computers being 2 years old or
less, they have constant crashes and have to back up everything on
CD's to make sure they don't lose it.
It's wildly off-topic, but...
www.vista-control.com/itanium_success.htm
SCADA stands for "supervision, control, and data acquisition", and is
used to describe software that handles things that actually matter.
Things make a mess if you don't do them properly, like nuclear
reactors and oil refineries. Fortunately, even after suffering
decades of the slings and arrows of IBM's PC architecture, there are
still people who know how to do it.
:)
VMS is the operating system first released in 1978 by Digital
Equipment Corporation from which "The Software Giant Microsoft" stole
wholesale lots of technology; unfortunately, they (Bill Gates and his
boys) were never able to duplicate DEC's software engineering
culture, so their VMS-derived systems (NT, Windows 2000, XP, etc.)
continue to be under-performing and bug-ridden.
There are numerous VMS installations around the world which have been
running non-stop for fifteen to twenty years. In many of them, every
single piece of hardware (CPUs, mass storage, network components,
etc.) has been swapped out at one time or another, without ever
missing a beat. It's a form of immortality, in a science fiction sort of way.
Now that I think of it, I guess VMS is a little like the Ercoupe:
ancient, but still in a league by itself.
Karl Sutterfield
N9532V, Mooney M10 Cadet s.n. 700022
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Kerrville, TX 78029
830-257-5458 home office
830-257-5468 fax
830-285-7323 cell
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