Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, February 08, 2011 08:21:38 pm Jay Leafey wrote: > Much as I love Linux, I'd still prefer to be running VMS on an x86 > desktop box! 1.) Get an OpenVMS hobbyist media kit and license for OpenVMS/VAX. 2.) Install simh from a third-party CentOS repository, or from source. ( simh.trai

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/08/11 6:20 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > How about, "this will be the year of Linux on the desktop!" oooh.damn, got coffee in /another/ keyboard :-/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting "Dr. Ed Morbius" : > on 16:34 Tue 08 Feb, Raymond Lillard (r...@sonic.net) wrote: >> On 02/08/2011 03:28 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> > on 17:02 Tue 08 Feb, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote: >> >> On 2/8/2011 4:40 PM, Johnny H wrote: >> >>> Thanks Mark, for this and your previous

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:34 Tue 08 Feb, Raymond Lillard (r...@sonic.net) wrote: > On 02/08/2011 03:28 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 17:02 Tue 08 Feb, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On 2/8/2011 4:40 PM, Johnny H wrote: > >>> Thanks Mark, for this and your previous email. > > >> Unfortunately, the

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Jay Leafey
Les Bell wrote: Raymond Lillard wrote: The statement is generally quoted without context as it is here. << Correct. Olsen is also famous for saying "People will get tired of managing personal computers and will want instead terminals, maybe with windows." (by which he meant, a windowing graphi

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Les Bell
Raymond Lillard wrote: >> The statement is generally quoted without context as it is here. << Correct. Olsen is also famous for saying "People will get tired of managing personal computers and will want instead terminals, maybe with windows." (by which he meant, a windowing graphical terminal,

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 02/08/2011 03:28 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 17:02 Tue 08 Feb, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On 2/8/2011 4:40 PM, Johnny H wrote: >>> Thanks Mark, for this and your previous email. >> Unfortunately, the thing he will probably be most remembered for is the >> 1977 quote: "The

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Mark
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > >> "There is no reason for  any individual to have a computer in >> his home." > > Google thinks the same, don't they? > Yes, let's blame cloud computing on Google ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Ian Murray
> "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in > his home." Google thinks the same, don't they? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:02 Tue 08 Feb, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote: > On 2/8/2011 4:40 PM, Johnny H wrote: > > Thanks Mark, for this and your previous email. > > > > It is always sad when anyone dies, God rest his soul. To be honest, I > > have never heard of him before but it appears he made a massiv

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/8/2011 4:40 PM, Johnny H wrote: > Thanks Mark, for this and your previous email. > > It is always sad when anyone dies, God rest his soul. To be honest, I > have never heard of him before but it appears he made a massive > contribution in his life and he is probably a good inspiration to many

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/08/11 2:40 PM, Johnny H wrote: > Thanks Do you think a corei7 980x with 12GB of ram could do as an > emergency > back-up for data analyses? folks, I think this was bleed from a CC to a redhat linux mail list. let it be. ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread Johnny H
Thanks Mark, for this and your previous email. It is always sad when anyone dies, God rest his soul. To be honest, I have never heard of him before but it appears he made a massive contribution in his life and he is probably a good inspiration to many people. I need to read through your articles'

[CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-08 Thread m . roth
A lot of us wouldn't be here without him. DEC made good, really reliable hardware. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo