Re: Migrating to Oracle on Windows

On May 22, 8:22 pm, Mladen Gogala <mgogala.SPAM_ME...._at_verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:11:09 -0700, joel garry wrote:
> > I got an unsolicited PDP job email yesterday
>
> PDP? Like PDP-11, RSX, KED and alike? Somebody is still using that?
> It looks like the old computers never die. They live forever in our
> nightmares. Don't get me wrong, I spent significant part of my career
> being a VAX/VMS system administrator and, as a student, I was using
> FORTRAN and PASCAL compilers on PDP-11. We had some fun with the
> DEFINE FILE command and old RZ drives but I am now 46 years old,
> quarter of a century after the last use of an RSX box that I can
> remember. Anyone who has kept these boxes in a corporate IT after
> all these years deserves to be shot, regardless of my nostalgia and
> Peter Pan complex.
>
> --http://www.mladen-gogala.com

Of course this made me totally curious, so I had to ask: http://groups.google.com/group/vmsnet.pdp-11/browse_thread/thread/5cebb706bfbe2076/a1ffeff443537e76?lnk=st&q=author%3Ajgar&rnum=1

jg

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