SAQ wrote:
I remember seeing, many years ago, a comparison that someone did between MS's top tech support and a call to the Psychic Hotline regarding a moderately complex DB question. Neither was able to fix the problem, the difference was that the Psychic Hotline admitted that they didn't know what they were doing, whereas MS kept trying to sell them stuff (I think).
I think I remember something like that. Was funny at the time.
SAQ wrote:
Pymble- did you run the original Alpha x86 (MS) emulator or DIGITAL's FX!32? My FX!32 experience is limited (I do have a copy somewhere, but the AS2100 I had NT on died), but it looked like a very strong approach to the problem - writing out pretranslated blocks of code to create a semi-"fat-binary" so after several runs very little of the code needed to be translated "in-flight".
I ran FX!32 at the time and wasn't impressed... Concept was great but my experience with it found it lacking in my opinion...
I have just started getting reacquainted with Tru64... somethings are good..
/etc/securettys as a file to specify which terminals you can log in as root was a good idea.. It is also in OpenBSD..
..and the DEC compiler has that wonderful ---------^ here, that is the part of the line of code I am complaining about in the error messages, not just the line number but position on the line too..
I am still waiting for my VMS hobbyist licenses...