Re: Process accounting - did anyone ever use it?
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:30:51AM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > (Credit the Quotas thread for prompting this.) > > Did anyone ever use process accounting? Did they actually bill departments > (funny money)? When I was an undergrad at Drake University the 'academic' VAX, running VMS 6.mumble, would spit out a monthly accounting report on the DEC laser printer we had attached to the thing. One of my many jobs was working the counter where the printer was at, and I was often amused by how many thousands of dollars I had spent in CPU time that month. I don't think they did anything with it - if so, my student loans would have been way way worse than they were - and suspect it was set up when the thing was originally an 11/750 and carried through the 4000-600 it was when I was using it and when they shut it off (incidentially, it's now sitting in my apartment). I think the only real use for the report was to provide a baseline printer paper order each month -- Thomas L. Kula | k...@tproa.net | https://kula.tproa.net/
Re: Did we miss the 20th anniversary of classiccmp?
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 05:18:03PM +0100, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:34:52AM -0500, Jay West via cctalk wrote: > >> > >> But that being said... we should have had a party or something *grin*. > >> > > > > You could argue that years are index starting from zero. Thus the > > 20-year celebration is next year and we have ample time to prepare. > > > > (It's what we did when we missed an anniversery for the computer science > > programme). > > At least in the UK it is tradition to celebrate a person's 21st birthday > (coming of age and all that). So perhaps the same applies to mailing > lists :-) > > Somewhere I have a 21st birthday card that a certain classic computer > enthiast (now alas passed away) sent, not to me, but to my PDP11/45... To be fair, while we may have missed the 020th and 20th anniversaries, we're well ahead of the 0x20th anniversary. So --- what base are we using? -- Thomas L. Kula | k...@tproa.net | http://kula.tproa.net/
