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Searching for the Oldest Running Application
A columnist from InternetWeek has completed a search for the oldest running commercial software application. His results are interesting (note that he's mostly skipping over mainframe applications, just looking at PC-based apps).
Hello World!!!
Solitaire
Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -FB
Yeah, that's a guy I want to be adjusting my back. Probably doesn't believe in that 'new fangled' aspirin for aches, either.
Definitely the Blue Screen of Death!
Well we know it's definitely NOT his web server!
I can submit Scorched Earth myself. I had totally forgotten that my PC had an internal speaker until I ran it.
my sig
Microsoft Flight Simulator: A Century of Flight.
I'd say 100 years is a fairly long-running app.
You must be new here... [/tongueincheek]
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
Well you'd better go catch it!
n00b!
My girlfriend's mom wrote some of the first conversions of actuarial tables to mainframe, from books, in the 1950s and 1960s (all done w/ punch cards and machine language, of course) at a life insurance company in Mass. The company was still running a lot of her orgininal code when she retired a couple of years ago.
/.'ers don't have girlfriends.
This is obviously an apocryphal story.
Who can spot the inconsistancy that gives this fakery away?
Exactly.
We all know
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Hey now.. A lot of slashdotters have girlfriends.. They just don't look like girls.
i want to know who the oldest living slashdot poster is ;-)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I have an ancient Abacus that was bought from an medievel marketplace - and I still use it to do my business tax!
I am a filthy pirate.
... and because nobody's left who understands it, unknownst to the company, the original authors still receive their full paycheck in the mail every every week, even though 2 of them are deceased :-)
What's the difference between a /. girlfriend and an elephant?
About 200lbs!
How do you make them the same?
Put the Elephant on a diet!
Ah yes, humor at its worst...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Hey now.. A lot of slashdotters have girlfriends.. They just don't look like girls.
More like a CRT with wires to a grey box with led's and optical drives? The only reason i have a gf is she hasn't read my browser history.. "Oh, you read slashdot?" (puts shirt back on, walks out door).. Now if she found out i posted as well...
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
PRAY_WE_GO_THERE:
MOV _PTR_INCMING_SOVIET_WARHEAD_CNTR, A
MOVB (A), B
TESTB B, B
JE PRAY_WE_GO_THERE
CALL _RETALIATE
RET
WP5.1 rocks. Last good version they ever made. The graphical versions that followed were never stable, or even close to fast. Can't count how many division by zero errors I got in 6.0.
I still find myself wanting to do 'reveal codes' in Word 2000...
...going into radio Shack and typing
:
/r
10 Print "Shit!";
20 Goto 10
and walking away.
later, that evolved into:
10 Print "Fuck You!!";
20 y$=inkey$:if y$="" OR y$"" then 10
which basicly grabs the 'break' from the buffer before it can be processed, requiring a reboot to clear.
Adding the line (before executing)
basica fuck.bas
to the autoexec.bat ran the program from boot.
Truly evil, we were.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
Yea, they look like a palm ;)
wtf.... why do you associate someone's death with dukes of hazzard reruns??
I hope when I die, someone says....
"SamBeckett died right after the 30 year aniversery of Futurama rerun on Tuesday night right after Geriatric Friends"