On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:
> "The tools to make user-privilege separation usable day to day,
> e.g., the ability to run programs with/without the net and to
> switch among working environments/desktops/user accounts with
> a single keypress, and so on just aren't avail
Yep, took a long time to load for me, too. Could be on a VAXstation 3100 or
a MicroVAX.
In Heaven he will have his choice of computers and a data center to put them
in and his own printing press to explain it all to the other denizens. Only
a year older than me and already gone these past five y
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:01:50 -0400
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:
> > (*) Sorry, Windows users. The tools you need just aren't
> > available on Windows.
>
> Windows NT certainly has user accounts. Always has, since the first
> version (Versio
David,
>His web site exists here:
>http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/
It must be residing on a PRO 350 running an early version of V7M-11 (nee
Ultrix-11)it took such a long time to load, but was definitely worth
the wait.
Thanks again for the memories.
md
P.S. My note about Terry from that s
maddog, et. al.
Thanks much for that additional history. I am filing it as notes for my
eventual 'autobiography' accordingly.
I also remember reading Terry Shannon's 'Charlie Matco' columns back then
and I believe I even corresponded with him once or twice. May he indeed,
fellow 'Nam vet (we we
On 08/17/2010 07:56 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
>> Cutler wanted to leave Massachusetts and live in Washington State a long
>> time before that. KO wanted to keep him on board, so allowed him to set
>> up an advanced development facility in
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
> Cutler wanted to leave Massachusetts and live in Washington State a long
> time before that. KO wanted to keep him on board, so allowed him to set
> up an advanced development facility in Belleview, overlooking the
> Olympic Mountains, w
David,
Unfortunately the site you mention:
http://www.alphant.com/
has a FAQ that is wrong:
http://www.alphant.com/ant_faq.shtml#64bits
Alpha NT never supported a 64-bit virtual address space. I seem to
remember that Digital offered that code to Microsoft in 1992, but
Microsoft turned it down
Ben,
>From an admittedly faulty and ever-aging memory of events:
> And Cutler moved to Microsoft because DEC just wanted to
> maintain/extend VMS, while Cutler wanted to write a new OS ("MICA")
> for the new hardware architecture ("PRISM") that was being designed.
> Microsoft needed a better OS
Very interesting, and additional information that I was not aware of,
naturally. For a short while, maybe nine years ago, I had an office with an
Alpha machine that was running OpenVMS 6.something, and then when my
"managers" found out that it could run NT, they made me change it to NT. I
wish no
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM, David Hardy wrote:
> And we all know, I think, that Windows NT was created for Microsoft by Dave
> Cutler, former developer of RSX and VMS ..
And Cutler moved to Microsoft because DEC just wanted to
maintain/extend VMS, while Cutler wanted to write a new OS ("MI
*"...since the first
version (Version 3.0). (NT is today called "Windows 7", and has also
been called "Vista", "XP", and "2000".) (It's still Microsoft; they
love playing name games.)*
*
*
*And we all know, I think, that Windows NT was created for Microsoft by Dave
Cutler, former developer of RS
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:
> (*) Sorry, Windows users. The tools you need just aren't
> available on Windows.
Windows NT certainly has user accounts. Always has, since the first
version (Version 3.0). (NT is today called "Windows 7", and has also
been called "Vis
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