Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:37:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: kernel support for non-English user messages |
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Linux Torvalds wrote: > > > > I've used VMS, and error code number encoding is a total heap of crap. > [SNIPPED...]
> > (Of course there were drawbacks, too... when the leather belt driving > the Difference Engine broke, for example, it was every man for himself!) >
You think you are kidding? The main hard disk on one of our VAX/11-750 was belt-driven. I think it was a RA50?? Anyway, it consisted of a 55 pound sealed aluminum casting with fins (HDA), that a technician would roll in using a refrigerator dolly. It had a pulley on it's bottom that was fit into a belt to spin it up. The motor sounded like a vacuum-cleaner motor, probably made by Hoover.
Wmmm. $ ls / # "DIR" %DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found
Remember versioned files? What would Unix do with....
$ renam *.*;* *.*;1
$ ls *.*;1 $ You get left with one file called *.*;1 -- nice!
I did like.... $ set proc/priv=all $ @sys$system:shutdown
It was almost as amazing as `init 0` on Red-Hat distributions....
> -- > Chuck
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
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