[geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Thu Oct 19 21:58:34 CDT 2006


>From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
>Date: 2006/10/19 Thu PM 01:12:41 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed

>On 10/19/06, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:
>> Thus spake Mike Meredith:
>> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:39:24 -0400, velociraptor wrote:
>> >> On 10/18/06, Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:
>> >> >Given that it still relies
>> >> > on COBOL and does things to Oracle that turns any sane Oracle DBA
>> >> > white
>> >>
>> >>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >> > and shaking, I can believe it.
>> >>
>> >> Isn't this an oxymoron? ;-)
>> >
>> > I can't see it. I'm being dumb tonight :)
>>
>> "sane oracle dba"
>>
>> There are none.
>
>I've met friendly ones, and smart ones, but none that I'd call sane. :-)
>
>Sorry about the messed up "^^" line, fscking proportional font in web
>mail interfaces threw it off.  Next time I'll just quote it.

<Dave McGuire>
Time for a new mail client
</Dave McGuire>

Now, if everyone used  mail clients that just maintained "long lines" (without artifically truncating lines) it might have been more readable, but I digress... ;^)

Lionel



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