More Tripoli hypocrisy?

You can do it on their behalf.

Phil

Phil Stein

This exchange is representative of many discussions with Tripoli embers and leaders. When called on an issue they pull out the ancient history or "that's in the past" card and proceed to blame you for not focusing on the present. Meantime people who learn about history are not forced to repeat the mistakes of the past or avoid learning anything from them. TRA just makes the same mistakes over and over and over.

Jerry

I remember reading an article a few years ago about how it was practically the kiss of death to put Fortran or COBOL on your resume. Apparently too many employers took this to mean you were "old school" (or just old) and thus not "cutting edge" regardless of how skilled/experienced you were with the latest stuff.

COBOL is dead but FORTRAN is back.

Jerry

I faintly remember that, but I thought that was for the early x.25 networks.

The itnernet was on x.25 before tcp/ip "I belive". when it converted over to ip, routers took care of those "Hops" for you.

it's amasing this thread went from rules changing to Irvine history to computer history in a few short days.

Tripoli supporters are all about changing the subject when TRA is accused, and remembering every allegation ever made, proven or not when attackig a former member.

Jerry

Sooo... it's a *failing* to jump from one idea to another, because it happened to be inspired by something else being discussed...?

I'm not a Tripoli 'supporter'. (Although I *do* have a membership - makes things easier when I come down to the States to fly...) I just happen to like jumping from topic to topic.

Must be the short attention-span... :-)

The wonders of the internet!

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

I spent many a late night burning my professor's computer budget playing

Mark Simpson NAR 71503 Level II God Bless our peacekeepers

OS9 the first multitasking OS? Don't think so.... There was this thing called Unix (pre system V) and it's mother, Multics (the lord of the "rings" some called it). Not available for home users, but available to many pre OS9!

Now can anybody tell me what "baudot" is? :)

This is becoming the geek of the month club thread. ;)

I can still hear the IBM terminal printing matrices of vector solutions for relative air traffic distances. A stupid homework assignment in APL. I fooled around with it until it was one line of code (which will be a familiar trick for those twisted enough to have done APL programming). I'd like to find the guy who thought up greek double-strike characters for matrix operations and, and, well... ah who cares. He probably got his just rewards by now. 8-]

-John

M/PM?

He's the robot those other two robots under the tree are waiting for d%^)

Get it?

"WAITING FOR BAUDOT" french accent needed :^)

Patrick

Woody, I did fail to qualify that as 'useful' mulitasking OS. And of course you forgot OS2. I still use both OS9 and OS2, and of course the lowly UNIX ;-) Religated to Codonics printers.

OS/2 was long after Unix.....

Remember - OS/2 started at MS! (Windows NT was originally OS/2 New Technology "OS/2 NT", due to the fact the Windows 3.0 caught on - and Dos

You seem to have missed about 10 years of history - I was using Unix in the

Big fat yuppers there Woodrow. IIRC Unix dates back to 1969.....b-day of daarpa ie, internet.

As far as OS/2 it really didn't get good at multitasking until the warp era.

I think I still might have warp on 3.5" diskette.....

Ted Novak TRA#5512

Woody Miller wrote:

There were also small companies like IBM, CDC, DEC, Honeywell etc that had been doing that for quite some time.

Phil Ste>OS9 the first multitasking OS? Don't think so.... There was this thing

Phil Stein

So that's what Spock was doing. He was playing chess instead of working and he beat the computer too. ; )

Randy