[geeks] You know you're an OpenVMS fanatic...

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Aug 2 14:21:20 CDT 2002


On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:15:23PM -0400, Ross Alexander wrote:

> You know what happened on November 17, 1858.

What happened?
 
> You don't bother to exit your editor when you leave on a two week vacation.

Of course not.  Emacs just keeps going and going on many platforms.
 
> Your LOGIN.COM exceeds 200 blocks and is on it's 1000th revision.

Huh?
 
> You know the corect way of writing a date is
> DD-MMM-YYYY.

Why in the world?
 
> You have forgotten how to boot because your system has been up for so long.

I've done that with linux machines already, but that's probably
because I'm forgetfull.
 
> You use your OpenVMS system to backup important files from your PC.

PC?  What PC?
 
> You understand that the "Open" is a silent prefix.

That is a great one!

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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