XPost: alt.flame, alt.os.linux   
   From: wookie@deathstar.net   
      
   NunYa Bidness wrote:   
   > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:26:36 -0500, GANEFS!  Gave   
   > us:   
      
   8< SNIP >8   
      
   >>>That would be the baseline   
   >>>criteria here.   
   >>   
   >>ROFL   
   >   
   >   
   >   What?  Does BeOS run on VMS' hardware?   
      
   Now. He's laughing at you, because you don't get it, and   
   you probably never will.   
      
   >>>  BTW, there are plenty of OSes that beat the pants off of VMS.   
   >>   
   >>What, exactly, is your criteria for this?   
   >   
   >   
   >   Any number of factors could be considered.  Hell the new Xbox 360   
   > likely destroys it. Whoopie doo, it's got a nice big backplane for   
   > peripheral cards! Oh boy... THAT's hardware.   
   >   
   >   
   >>I could easily charge someone upwards of $200/hr to fix their antique backend   
   >>VMS system running some custom app that was easier to keep running than hire   
   >>code-monkeys to recreate.   
   >   
   >   
   >  So what.  Any good engineer can tally that many bananas that fast.   
   > You are not special, son.   
   >   
   >   
   >> In that respect, VMS/VAX is "tha shiznit", imo.   
   >   
   >   
   >   Nice opinion, but the "pwns" and "bit-chess"  is more than fairly   
   > immature and even more than fairly lame in Usenet, as it nearly always   
   > means a troll.   
      
   Unlike your posts, which are meaningful, and informative.   
      
      
   >>it does what it was meant to do so well that people still use it after   
   several   
   >>decades.  what better argument is there, ya know?  sheesh.   
   >   
   >   
   >   Fine. Fine opinion. Again, it was the added CRAP that makes the   
   > whole declaration, and you look bad.   
   >   
   >   
   >>> Since   
   >>>you have spanned hardware platforms, I could also easily and correctly   
   >>>contend that there are plenty of hardware platforms that beat the   
   >>>pants off it as well.  Whom is owned?  In this thread, that'd be you.   
   >>   
   >>the only better hardware platform, historically is probably Z80.  :)   
   >   
   >   
   >  Your brain must have gotten bent when that black hole ejected you :-]   
      
   Uh, do you even know what a Z80 is to begin with? Let me give you a   
   hint: it's not a sports car he's referring to.   
      
   >>> Sheesh.  Troll boy acts all intelligent, then utilizes lame, gang boy   
   >>>net lingo.  How mature... NOT!   
   >>   
   >>you just wait until my crew comes in to back me up, yo.  you'll be eating   
   >>those words, mang.   
   >   
   >   
   >   Yep, mosh pit punk material...  E-1 grade.   
   > Your posted "e-mail addy" fits you.   
   >   
   >   If you do not know that there are much better computers running much   
   > better OSes out there today, then you have been inside for too long   
   > since your discharge.   
      
   Coming from a person who probably still needs help from his mother to   
   get dressed. It baffles my mind how people such as yourself manage to   
   figure out how to use their USENET clients.   
      
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