Don't forget, Linus once had a Sinclair QL (68008 microprocessor).
As far as I rememeber that age (around 87s) not many students could afford a PC. (Hey, I had a Spectrum and later an Atari ST) It was only a couple of years later when the IBM clones started to appear in huge numbers that PC's got cheaper.
If the PC/Microsoft thing didn't happen it would have been another platform (68000-based probably) on which free/open software would have gotten developped.
Minix, which Linus knew, and which gave way to some hilarious emails between Linus and Tanenbaum, could run on Atari's and Amiga's.
Free/Open would have happened. If it weren't on an IBM PC or a clone it would have on something else. Because of the fun of it:)
I work at a back where we have a Siemens Mainframe (BS2000) and use Win 2000 machines with Logics (a terminal emulator for the 9720's BS2000 machines use).
Back at Y2K when we didn't have too much to do (being at work only watching the blinkenlights) I wrote my own interface to BS2000 in REXX to bypass Logics.
Ok, the thing isn't perfect; the terminal emulation sucks (it's not 3270 and info is very hard to find). I never perfected it. The little REXX routines do their jobs well enough and I'm too lazy to beg Siemens for manuals which describe terminal emulation.
I now use cygwin and call REXX scripts from within a bash shell. A great way to automate lookups on the mainframe: the output of my REXX scripts gets redirected in cygwin and I can grep/awk/sed/perl for what I need.
"It's, er, really quite fun in it's way," he concluded. "Certainly better than television and a great deal easier to use than a video recorder. If I miss a programme I just pop back in time and watch it. I'm hopeless fiddling with all those buttons."
Dirk reacted to this revelation with horror.
"You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television?"
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Masters in Business Administration? Sorry, but from personal experience I'd call it Management By Arrogance.
Just my $0,02
If he'd do that the US would label him as a terrorist and invade his country!
Oh wait...
At least now I'll always know what f3789b3c1be47758203f9e8a4d8c6a2a means.."
Damn!!! They cracked my password already. Better go and change it.
Beware of this thing... I downloaded the free (ad supported) codec from http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/in dex.php.
The damn silly thing has gator inside!
I can hear you all say: what do you expect from sonething that's add supported? Yes, I do feel stupid for downloading it and wanted to give it a try
Am I the only one who read this as Get A Life?
Seriously? Anyone?
No No No,
Main screen turn on!!!
Somebody set up us the bomb!
light isn't the fastest moving think... Bad news is!
In the DDR heroes of the proletariat slashdot you? had to try, sorry!
Not your ass, no, but the goatse guys'
Sorry...I must've rolled out of bed the wrong side too.
Still beats rolling out the correct side of the wrong bed!
Just came to this one today, seems appropriate :)
8 )
In a manner of speaking (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=2004040
Don't forget, Linus once had a Sinclair QL (68008 microprocessor).
:)
As far as I rememeber that age (around 87s) not many students could afford a PC. (Hey, I had a Spectrum and later an Atari ST) It was only a couple of years later when the IBM clones started to appear in huge numbers that PC's got cheaper.
If the PC/Microsoft thing didn't happen it would have been another platform (68000-based probably) on which free/open software would have gotten developped.
Minix, which Linus knew, and which gave way to some hilarious emails between Linus and Tanenbaum, could run on Atari's and Amiga's.
Free/Open would have happened. If it weren't on an IBM PC or a clone it would have on something else. Because of the fun of it
1. the US will try to convince all the planet Europe still has WMP's
...
2. the US will invade us
3. WMP's won't be found in Europe
Thanks to the wonderful people at IBM:
O OKS/dmse1a05/CCONTENTS
http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/B
Try to search the ibm site for bookmanager and rexx. You'll find plenty of material.
http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/
for those who want to give it a try.
ps: don't forget rxSock for sockets in REXX
I work at a back where we have a Siemens Mainframe (BS2000) and use Win 2000 machines with Logics (a terminal emulator for the 9720's BS2000 machines use).
...So it's nice to see REXX is still going :)
Back at Y2K when we didn't have too much to do (being at work only watching the blinkenlights) I wrote my own interface to BS2000 in REXX to bypass Logics.
Ok, the thing isn't perfect; the terminal emulation sucks (it's not 3270 and info is very hard to find). I never perfected it. The little REXX routines do their jobs well enough and I'm too lazy to beg Siemens for manuals which describe terminal emulation.
I now use cygwin and call REXX scripts from within a bash shell. A great way to automate lookups on the mainframe: the output of my REXX scripts gets redirected in cygwin and I can grep/awk/sed/perl for what I need.
... welcome our feminine, 35-54 age, overlords
but you can buy a gun, no?
untill they put USB flash memory in a chainsaw I'm not interessed.
When that happens I'll put perl on it !
There are four things they have agreed not to say in Germany mmmh, like, mmmh, mentioning the war?
welcome our new mannequin overlords
"It's, er, really quite fun in it's way," he concluded. "Certainly better than television and a great deal easier to use than a video recorder. If I miss a programme I just pop back in time and watch it. I'm hopeless fiddling with all those buttons." ... watching television?"
Dirk reacted to this revelation with horror.
"You have a time machine and you use it for
lucifer_666 ?
Is your name not Bruce, then?
one stone?
:)
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You misspelled coconut
http://arago4.tn.utwente.nl/stonedead/movies/holy