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|  Message 994  |
|  Stan Hosdar to Steve C  |
|  Re: what's classic now?  |
|  30 Jun 21 21:03:52  |
 MSGID: 1:229/426 A58A05D3 REPLY: 1:105/420 244eeb04 TZUTC: -0500 SC> I think what is *classic* depends on when/what the individual cut their tee SC> on. For me anything <= 486 is classic (although that's edging up to the fi SC> gen Pentiums these days). There are kids today that think a P4 is classic, SC> and then there's the old greybeards that don't consider it classic unless i SC> drew 10KW and used paper tape. At work, two years ago, a new CNC showed up..... with OS/2 Warp for a HMI.... seriously... no one knows os/2 anymore and I didn't even use it when dabbling in win95, DOS, etc.... so I have had to learn it. Machine is from 1999.. os/2 is clearly in the classic era of GUI experimentation... woo drag and drop... i'm considered old beause i grew up on DOS.... and it's layered variants.. to me the classic era is the early OS era, 8 bit micrcomputers, and minicomputer era... minicomputers without CRT displays scare and confuse me... such a foreign concept but i'm genuinely intrigued.. --- Renegade vY2Ka2 * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426) SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 154/10 SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 702 229/424 426 428 452 700 981 1016 1017 SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/1 206 317 400 282/1038 292/854 298/25 26 301/1 SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280 PATH: 229/426 317/3 298/25 14/0 229/426 |
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