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On Friday 24 May 2002 10:05 am, David Boyes wrote:
> (BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax.
> 20 years later, and if you're using a Vax, you're not playing with a full
> DEC...8-)).
This past weekend, at an SF convention, I had my first opportunity to actually
*see* a DEC PDP-8. In college I programmed PDP-8 assembler under a hardware
simulator that was written in WATFIV which, in turn, was a sort of interpreted
FORTRAN. Layers within layers. I liked the PDP-11 instruction set, by the way,
but the PDP-8 was just a bit too primitive even for my retro tastes.
Scott
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> According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was > released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary. > A typo perhaps? I think it makes the joke five years old 8) > >(BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax. > >20 years later, and if you're using a Vax, you're not playing with a full > >DEC...8-)).
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David Boyes writes: > ... >(BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax. >20 years later, and if you're using a Vax, you're not playing with a full >DEC...8-)). Isn't it more like 23-24 years? I think we got our first around 1978. -- --henry schaffer
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> According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was
> released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary.
> A typo perhaps?
Duh. 25 is right...guess I'm sitting too close to the MicroVAX in the
corner. The orbiting mind control lasers are getting to me. Or old age. Or
something.
I seem to recall that the "Hacker's Dictionary" included the
term "VAXectomy"...
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Adsumo ergo raptus sum
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Hello from Gregg C Levine In that case David, then we are both to blame, because I missed that one. However for a good read, on another company's response to those guys, try "Soul of a new machine". It describes in extreme detail the company's efforts to upstage that system. And they darn near succeded. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda ) > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > David Boyes > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] has anyone seen this? > > > According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was > > released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary. > > A typo perhaps? > > Duh. 25 is right...guess I'm sitting too close to the MicroVAX in the > corner. The orbiting mind control lasers are getting to me. Or old age. Or > something.
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On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:05:49AM -0400, David Boyes wrote: > (BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax. > 20 years later, and if you're using a Vax, you're not playing with a full > DEC...8-)). Interestingly enough, DEC recognized this when coming up with the Alpha. They designed it to not have any constraintys that would keep it from keeping up with the latest in computing trends for 20 years after introduction. They succeeded: not only did it outlast the company, but the company's successor...
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> According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was > released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary. > A typo perhaps? Duh. 25 is right...guess I'm sitting too close to the MicroVAX in the corner. The orbiting mind control lasers are getting to me. Or old age. Or something.
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Greetings; According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary. A typo perhaps? Dennis Henry Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .edu> cc: Sent by: LinuxSubject: Re: has anyone seen this? on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ARIST.EDU> 05/24/02 10:21 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port David Boyes writes: > ... >(BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax. >20 years later, and if you're using a Vax, you're not playing with a full >DEC...8-)). Isn't it more like 23-24 years? I think we got our first around 1978. -- --henry schaffer
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> Now if we could just get them to mass-produce the sticker > that says, "Never > trust a computer you can lift." *grin* They also used to make a sticker that said: "If it doesn't dim ALL your neighbors lights when you IML, it isn't a real computer." (BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax. 20 years later, and if you're using a Vax, you're not playing with a full DEC...8-)). -- db
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On Tue 21 May at 08:52:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > > this one had LINUX inside the fish! I had to look twice to convince myself! > w/ shark fin on top of the fish... :) Us zealots are coming for you. Was it a honda civic? Might've been me or one of my friends. -- * * tpepper@vato dot org * Venimus, Vidimus, * * http://www.vato.org/~tpepper * Dolavimus * *
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You can buy one from thinkgeek.com The Linux Fish: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/2898.shtml On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dunbar, Maggie wrote: > Over the weekend I was driving somewhere, and I got behind a car that had > one of those "fish" symbols on the back bumper - you know, the ones that > usually have the Greek letters for Christ inside the fish, although there > are also ones that say "Darwin" and have little feet on the fish. Well, > this one had LINUX inside the fish! I had to look twice to convince myself! > > > Maggie >
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On Tuesday 21 May 2002 09:52 am, Dunbar, Maggie wrote:
> Over the weekend I was driving somewhere, and I got behind a car that had
> one of those "fish" symbols on the back bumper - you know, the ones that
> usually have the Greek letters for Christ inside the fish, although there
> are also ones that say "Darwin" and have little feet on the fish. Well,
> this one had LINUX inside the fish! I had to look twice to convince
> myself!
You mainframers don't hang out at enough S-F conventions. Check this URL:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/stickers-emblems.shtml
Now if we could just get them to mass-produce the sticker that says, "Never
trust a computer you can lift."
Scott
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system."-- Linus Torvalds
http://www.4th.com/| ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999)
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One of my favorite "geek-stuff" websites: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/2898.shtml "Dunbar, Maggie" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: has anyone seen this? Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ARIST.EDU> 05-21-2002 08:52 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port Over the weekend I was driving somewhere, and I got behind a car that had one of those "fish" symbols on the back bumper - you know, the ones that usually have the Greek letters for Christ inside the fish, although there are also ones that say "Darwin" and have little feet on the fish. Well, this one had LINUX inside the fish! I had to look twice to convince myself! Maggie
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> this one had LINUX inside the fish! Perhaps a messianic view of Linux?
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:37:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > usually have the Greek letters for Christ inside the fish, although there > > are also ones that say "Darwin" and have little feet on the fish. Well, > > this one had LINUX inside the fish! I had to look twice to convince myself! > > You were not seeing things. I actually have a pair of these fish someone > sent me. > Actually, the strangest variant of this I have seen is the Christ Fish swallowing the Darwin Fish. -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> usually have the Greek letters for Christ inside the fish, although there > are also ones that say "Darwin" and have little feet on the fish. Well, > this one had LINUX inside the fish! I had to look twice to convince myself! You were not seeing things. I actually have a pair of these fish someone sent me.
