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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Who said ...
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 10:27:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MU3NJ04t4ZArN9M8xfhmsWVa4bN29_h+_1w_ALhkON_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210901141638.F064F640CC6@lignose.oclsc.org>

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On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:21 AM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:

> Running TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach.
>
I definitely stand corrected on that, now that I recall it was pot shot at
IBM, not DEC.

>
> Since scj is on this list, maybe he can confirm that part.
>
Very possible -- sound a little less like a Dennis quip than others from
those days.


>
> DEC's diags were far from perfect, but they were a hell of a
> lot better than the largely-nonexistent diags available for
> modern Intel-architecture systems.

I agree.


> Give me XXDP, not just the Blue Screen of Death.
>
Right.
ᐧ

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-01 14:16 Norman Wilson
2021-09-01 14:23 ` arnold
2021-09-01 14:27 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2021-09-01 14:29 ` Henry Bent
2021-09-01 14:32   ` Clem Cole
2021-09-01 14:48 ` Chris Torek
2021-09-01 16:00 ` Ron Natalie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-09-01 13:30 arnold
2021-09-01 13:48 ` Clem Cole
2021-09-01 13:55   ` John Cowan
2021-09-01 13:57   ` arnold
2021-09-01 14:11     ` Clem Cole
2021-09-01 14:26   ` Henry Bent
2021-09-01 15:08     ` Andrew Hume
2021-09-01 16:10 ` Ron Natalie
2021-09-01 16:42   ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2021-09-01 17:41     ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-09-01 20:00       ` ron minnich
2021-09-01 20:04         ` ron minnich
2021-09-01 21:47           ` Rob Pike

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