Been very quiet lately. So I figured I'd post something slightly off-topic but probably of interest to a few people here. osnews.com links to an article today...
... Agreed! "Rolling upgrades" in OpenVMS are a nifty life saver. I run the Deathrow OpenVMS project (http://deathrow.vistech.net), but most of our uptimes...
... It would be hard to compare uptimes, as all uptimes would be highly application-specific (not just in terms of what application you were running, but...
I'm running 2 PCs on xp home, and 2 on 2000 right now... the two XPs need rebooted every few weeks... the two 2000 boxes (hosting BBS stuff) only get rebooted...
... Good times for sure. The IBM iSeries (the baby ones) come in a box like the PC tower but that is where the similarity ends. The die-hard loyalists to the...
Not sure what you mean by this, Mark. Like any other machine the iSeries requires patches to be applied on occasion. However, unless you are doing something...
Hi Joe & all, I was generalizing for sure, and could apply to any brand. If it was not for the "world wide" grasp of teh typical iSeries these days, the...
VMS is a damn powerful OS.. I've worked as a VMS admin, even own a pair of VAXen and 3 Alpha's myself.. :) Glenn ... From: Quag7 To: 80sBBS@yahoogroups.com ...
... True enough, for the most part today's operating systems are pretty damned stable in and of themselves, the hard part is the drivers.. I think that it's a...
Hello all. I don't know if any of the Birmingham, Alabama crowd is here or not. I used to run a BBS in the late 80s/early 90s in West Blocton, Alabama called...
... I also agree with missing the bbs days and the glossy and corporate ideas, but... Those were elitist days. Cost of entry was high and the level of...
In the 80's and 90's the Commodore 64 was the gate way to BBSing. I live California, on the out skirts of L.A. witch started as the (213). Then was (310, now...
QuantumLink is the predecessor to AOL, same company, different name... Glenn ... From: gunnadriveunuts To: 80sBBS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 15,...
Thanks for the link. Now I get to drive my wife crazy with the old C-64! She has been trying to get me to toss that thing for years! HEEHAWS! How do ya like me...
TOSS A working 64? C'mon now.. If yer gonna get rid of it, sell it on EBay or something so someone else gets to love it and use it. Throwing them away is a...
Hey, just wanted to pass along that I was doing a bunch of digitization of my collection of vintage ads, brochures, catalogs, and the rest of the detrius of...
How do you pluralize BBS anyway? The easiest thing to do is lengthen it out to "Bulletin Board Systems," but how do you pluralize the acronym? BBSes? BBSs? ...
Ah, you have just hit on one of the most transgressed mistakes in pluralization that there is. How to pluralize an acronym. You are absolutely right that...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation # Plurals are often formed by doubling up the last letter of the abbreviation. Most of these deal with writing and ...
That picture is truly sad.. a whole wasted quote... *sigh* ... From: Quag7 To: 80sBBS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:08 AM Subject: RE:...
I still stand by my claim that because the last letter is an S, it is correct to add "es" to pluralize BBS. But, I am also with Bruce Landwaster when he says:...
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