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Comment Seems like old is new again (Score 1) 83

Comment Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS) (Score 1) 55

"DECUS was founded in March 1961 by Edward Fredkin."
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Having my first computer hands on experience in college with a VAX-11/730, DECUS was my way to connect with the VMS Engineering team directly. DEC at least tried to listen, and often would. COMPAQ & HP / HPE turned it into a private CES, which failed much like it did. With HPE, until this year, it was three days of sales pitches in Las Vegas.

And although HPE announced that it killed OpenVMS, it's being ported to X86 by VSI:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvmssoftware.com%2F

Comment Re: Lots (Score 1) 178

Will Durant's Story of Civization, Ceaser and Christ (or how to die and influence the western world for millennia) , although The Age of Voltaire ("The incarnation of the Enlightenment") is good too. Mostly for his style for telling a story. Code tells a story, and if it looks like every keystroke resulted in an electric shock, it isn't maintainable (readable) and probably doesn't work well. Durant's eleven volumes in a summer can be hard, but reading a few pages every day at work so when your boss asks, say "understanding the decay of absolute monarchy is important" (at least from Voltaire).

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