Which Operating System do you use?

[_SteelHead]

Super star trek on a wyse terminal on the interwebz!

[Guest]

Right now I'm using both Windows seven and Mac OS X.

My first computer was an Osborn 1. It's still in my garage somewhere. You guys thought you were old...

Isn't that an original Nephite Urim and Thummim?

One would need a really big hat.

P.S. In terms of screen pixels, I'm guessing that one had 7...

Hey, that's a giant four inch screen.

No flat screens in those days. A portable computer with a large cathode ray tube would have weighed a hundred pounds. It was pulling my arm out of socket as it was... the good old days.

[_SteelHead]

I still write tight code.....

[_Quasimodo]

I still write tight code.....

Good for you! I think it's becoming a lost art. I gave up on coding years ago (left it to smarter people).

I wonder if there is some advantage to tight code in these new phone apps?

[_moksha]

In the DOS days, WordPerfect wrote much of their code in machine language.

Most of us can barely say, "Klaatu barada nikto".

[_Quasimodo]

In the DOS days, WordPerfect wrote much of their code in machine language.

Most of us can barely say, "Klaatu barada nikto".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VtcOCHePB4

[_MeDotOrg]

In the DOS days, WordPerfect wrote much of their code in machine language.

WordPerfect 5.1 was some of my favorite software. I originally started with the AOS/VS (Data General) version.

That was the golden age of computer customer support. You would call a different phone number for Macros, Printer Drivers, etc., and the wait times were amazingly short. Customer support seemed to really know what they were doing.

One time I was having a problem with footnotes and formatting. I called technical support, and they were able to re-create the problem I was having. They patched me over to a change request department, and the bug was fixed in the next revision of software!

I heard that when WordPerfect introduced their Windows version and Microsoft Word was their competition, Word used a lot of 'undocumented system calls', hooks into the Windows operating system that were not made available to other software companies. It was around that time that there was some noise about splitting Microsoft into an operating system company and a software company. There wasn't much of a firewall between the two.

Microsoft did well with the integration between Word and Excel. WordPerfect and Lotus tried to counter, but they never integrated to the same degree.