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  Re: man's most serious activity is play
  By: Maurice Kinal to Charles Blackburn on Fri Oct 07 2022 01:38:52

 MK> Hey Charles!

 CB>> then i go back to good ol' laplink and a parallel cable or if
 CB>> it's from my main pc, a serial cable.
 MK> plip and slip. Just like mom used to make.

yup... nothing like slipping in... never mind :D

 CB>> SCO Xenix running on a compaq deskpro 386
 MK> An alpha would have been more impressive methinks ... mind you compaq
bought them out ... just before they got bought out by
 MK> hp. So much for that idea.

yea that would be nice, closest to an alpha i have is emulation. although that
said, i have played with a microvax and stuff when i was working at the
bowling alley... they had a micropdp I beleive it was or something like that
which ran an AMF version of Xenix. was cool as i was the only one that knew
how to use it i got to play, but it controlled everything from telling the
pinsetters to turn on to cashing, scoring etc.

i'm going back some 30-odd years but hell would be cool to get one of them :D

 CB>> at the time i never got on with solaris

 MK> You and many, many others. My excuse is there wasn't a choice as the
sparc's came preloaded with solaris and it was never my
 MK> dime. On the plus side I learned c while I was at it. Before that it was
f77 on vax/vms. I haven't done fortran since moving

i've dabbled with opensolaris or w/e it's called nowadays, but it's just bsd
to me LOL

 MK> to linux despite the fact the plan was to port some f77 source using g77
installed on a 486. Back then Slackware
 MK> 3.something.or.other was the clear winner. 32-bit pci cards were just
starting to make an appearance then.

found my copy of slackware 2.3 CDROM circa 1995, and it still works :D

regards
charlie
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