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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   
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   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   
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