From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] What's with the DZ-11?
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:04:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DB30720-14AE-4B7C-B3FF-7B2C6716251C@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411280650120.30791@aneurin.horsfall.org>
[-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 606 bytes --]
>
> DEC used to fob us off because we ran Unix; it was only when DECEX became
> available that the overlapped-seeks issue on the RK-11 was finally
> acknowledged, as RSX/RSTS didn't use that feature, and MAINDEC didn't prod
> it.
>
That was the story of my life running the UNIX machines, not only from DEC and other
service guys but also the manufacturers themselves. Sometimes I had to bluff and
say i was experiencing the problem with the proprietary OS. I had to remember not
to use our slang for the other OS’s (both HP’s MPX and Gould’s MPE we referred to
as Might Pour Excuse).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-28 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-27 14:55 Noel Chiappa
2014-11-27 15:47 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-11-27 15:50 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-11-27 19:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-11-28 13:04 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-12-01 12:32 Noel Chiappa
2014-12-01 15:46 ` Warner Losh
2014-12-01 16:41 ` Clem Cole
2014-11-27 16:03 Noel Chiappa
2014-11-26 21:41 Noel Chiappa
2014-11-26 20:48 Dave Horsfall
2014-11-26 21:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-11-26 22:08 ` Clem Cole
2014-11-27 19:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-11-27 20:55 ` Larry McVoy
2014-11-30 6:03 ` Warren Toomey
2014-11-30 6:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-11-30 7:03 ` Warren Toomey
2014-12-01 5:03 ` Dave Horsfall
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1DB30720-14AE-4B7C-B3FF-7B2C6716251C@ronnatalie.com \
--to=ron@ronnatalie.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).