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|    Message 994 of 1,530    |
|    Stan Hosdar to Steve C    |
|    Re: what's classic now?    |
|    30 Jun 21 21:03:52    |
      MSGID: 1:229/426 A58A05D3       REPLY: 1:105/420 244eeb04       TZUTC: -0500       SC> I think what is *classic* depends on when/what the individual cut their tee       SC> on. For me anything <= 486 is classic (although that's edging up to the fi       SC> gen Pentiums these days). There are kids today that think a P4 is classic,       SC> and then there's the old greybeards that don't consider it classic unless i       SC> drew 10KW and used paper tape.                            At work, two years ago, a new CNC showed up..... with OS/2 Warp for a HMI....        seriously... no one knows os/2 anymore and I didn't even use it when dabbling        in win95, DOS, etc.... so I have had to learn it.              Machine is from 1999.. os/2 is clearly in the classic era of GUI        experimentation... woo drag and drop...              i'm considered old beause i grew up on DOS.... and it's layered variants..              to me the classic era is the early OS era, 8 bit micrcomputers, and        minicomputer era... minicomputers without CRT displays scare and confuse me...       such a foreign concept but i'm genuinely intrigued..              --- Renegade vY2Ka2        * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 154/10       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 702 229/424 426 428 452 700 981 1016 1017       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/1 206 317 400 282/1038 292/854 298/25 26 301/1       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       PATH: 229/426 317/3 298/25 14/0 229/426           |
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