The Sharky seems to be a "column" type thing. The "fish" are the people who
provide the stories. Reality-check not required, as long as the story will be
"popular".
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:39:29 -0500, Bill Woodger wrote:
>I think there's at best a great deal of "faulty memory" here.
This story was posted by the same person who posted this:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3099975/data-center/blue-screen-of-death-mainframe-style.html#tk.drr_mlt
which was
W dniu 2016-10-12 o 00:26, Charles Mills pisze:
Ha! You can download COMMAND.COM here
http://www.allbootdisks.com/disk_contents/dos.html. The 1988 MS-DOS 3.3 variant
is 25.3K
Every .COM file was limited to 64kB size. That's .EXE which could be
larger.
BTW: The story about "idiot user who
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> COMMAND.COM in the late 80s was way smaller than 65K
Good grief! Indeed, the minimum IBM PC was 16K! ("Pricing started at US$1,565
(equivalent to $4,073
edia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer#Debut)
Charles
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I think there's at best a great deal of "faulty memory" here. Something was
nagging, so I just did a bit of research. COMMAND.COM in the late 80s was way
smaller than 65K.
Remembering that a backup copy has been saved, what did the clever PC expert
do? Deleted the backup, and copied
On 10/10/2016 04:17 PM, Mark Post wrote:
On 10/7/2016 at 08:09 AM, Tom Marchant
> <000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>> To paraphrase the article,
>> "Mainframe people are stupid and too snobbish to learn from us enlightened
>> PC weenies."
> I took it more like
>>> On 10/7/2016 at 08:09 AM, Tom Marchant
<000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> To paraphrase the article,
> "Mainframe people are stupid and too snobbish to learn from us enlightened
> PC weenies."
I took it more like "Mainframe people don't know as much as they think they
I did about the same: My first x86 box came with an apparent pirate
copy of Win 3.1 (no install disks) and I accidentally deleted all the
files in C:\WINDOWS. With UNDELETE you have to know the first character
of the original filename, so for the ones I couldn't guess I called up
my brother
Yep. Helped a co-worker who deleted all the files in the C:\
directory on Win 95 about 1997. Undeleted most files and rebooted
with system disk and restored IO.SYS, etc with special command from
floppy. Help desk was taking a long time to come over to fix it.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:46 AM,
Mark Regan wrote:
>http://www.computerworld.com/article/3126852/data-center/is-this-why-mainframes-almost-never-get-rebooted.html
Funny and plausible war story! ;-)
It reminds me of an a$$hole who edited his autoexec.bat to contains only one
line which has the program name which he wants to
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3126852/data-center/is-this-why-mainframes-almost-never-get-rebooted.html
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