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 Message 994 
 Stan Hosdar to Steve C 
 Re: what's classic now? 
 30 Jun 21 21:03:52 
 
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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..

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