Re: FYI: Dell lets Vista Business Users revert to XP

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:22:46 -0400, Tony Harding <ToHard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Journey wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:21:31 -0400, Tony Harding <ToHard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

RnR wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:00:56 -0400, Ben Myers
<ben_myers_spam_me_not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Close. "first reliable OS ever made"? Not made. It has been more of an
evolutionary process. "Made" implies intelligent design and software
development. Yes, I chose my words carefully here... Ben Myers

Perhaps the better wording is "most reliable OS ever made",
Hardly, IBM mainframes, servers not running MS software, etc., all run
weeks, months, even years without needing to reboot.

Yes, with the sophisticated naming conventions from the 1960's :-)

huh? Old naming conventions \= reliable? Or are they just funny? ;)

Seriously, I don't understand what you mean by this.

Well, I certainly should know this better, considering that 11 1/2
years of my IT career was on mainfraimes as a programmer or DBA, but
isn't it true that mainframes have 8.8.8.8... character names for
files? Also, jobs, job steps, and programs were all only 8
characters, causing names like PSH0S549 to mean "Program for Sales
History Production S549" rather than something more intelligible.

As of the end of my DBA career, I think DB2 table names had a limit of
18 characters.

IBM sat on its laurels and Watson's "Think" slogan wasn't followed
very closely after the '60's (IMO).

(there is a high degree of error with this opinion, I may be
overlooking something)
.

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