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  • Re: What is UNIX? (was: H

    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Bob Worm on Thu Oct 16 01:35:52 2025
    Re: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
    By: Bob Worm to MRO on Wed Oct 15 2025 10:29 am

    Re: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
    By: MRO to Bob Worm on Tue Oct 14 2025 20:38:52

    Hi, MRO.

    I've been using grep for decades.

    Unfortunately, it turns out the 90s were quite a long time ago. So I
    suppose me, too.


    what?? *throws his walker*
    it seems just like yesterday
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Bob Worm on Thu Oct 16 08:46:54 2025
    Bob Worm wrote to deon <=-

    We are so spoiled with modern computer performance that I don't think I can remember a single time when I've sat there thinking "I wish this
    grep would hurry up".

    I'm still amazed at how well the old iron held up. I ran DNS and mail
    on a Sparc5 for 100 people, had a small SMB share, and it held up quite
    well - that was, until our parent company sent an email to all that
    included a virus definition update to a system we weren't using.

    Suddenly my T1 circuit felt inadqeuate.



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  • From Warp 4@VERT/KLYNTAR to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Oct 20 12:54:00 2025
    yeah my hubby is an RPG developer on an iSeries midrange for one of the coasinos here. he also codes in COBOL when necessary.

    ... There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!

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  • From Warp 4@VERT/KLYNTAR to phigan on Mon Oct 20 12:55:00 2025
    On 05 Oct 2025, phigan said the following...

    Re: What is UNIX? (was: Hot T
    By: Dumas Walker to FUSION on Fri Oct 03 2025 10:17 am

    I was a professional user of z/OS until recently. ;) I used several

    What's that run on?


    Ibm IBM Z-Series mainframes like the IBM Z/16 Enterprise.

    ... Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Warp 4 on Mon Oct 20 18:03:06 2025
    Re: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
    By: Warp 4 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Oct 20 2025 12:54 pm

    yeah my hubby is an RPG developer on an iSeries midrange for one of the coasinos here. he also codes in COBOL when necessary.

    Interesting! My first job out of college was for a mail order/brick and mortar retailer. After coding in school in C and Lisp, COBOL and RPG/4 (which all of their systems were written in) seemed backwards. It works, and I'm sure more than we know is running old legacy, "uncool" code.

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