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Subject:    Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024
From:       J Martin Rushton via CentOS <centos () centos ! org>
Date:       2018-11-03 23:18:47
Message-ID: d5e56e2c-661b-1aa6-ef5a-2f71933d7854 () btinternet ! com
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On 03/11/18 22:49, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 3 Nov 2018 14:38:03 +0000 J Martin Rushton \
> <martinrushton56@btinternet.com>,  CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > From: J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56@btinternet.com>
> > To: centos@centos.org
> > Message-ID: <8a7a2aea-33da-9f3c-00a1-c6471fa02683@btinternet.com>
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024
> > References: <20181102200256.GA18584@mutt.melvilletheatre.net>  \
> > <20181102203540.6DE5326C22DA@sharky3.deepsoft.com>  \
> > <f664e653-a03c-3604-cec5-bcaadf9bd613@kicp.uchicago.edu>  \
> >                 <20181103023156.B332D26C22D6@sharky3.deepsoft.com>
> > In-Reply-To: <20181103023156.B332D26C22D6@sharky3.deepsoft.com>
> > 
> > On 03/11/18 02:31, Robert Heller wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > Yeah, there are very few of us that completely skipped 
> > > MS-DOS/MS-Windows/MacOS-Clasic and *never* used a graphical file manager or 
> > > any of the eye-candy that people now believe is "standard" or "normal".  I 
> > > went from VMS on a VT<whatever> to a VAXStation 2000 to a VAXStation 3000, to 
> > > DECStation 5000, to Linux, with some time spent on CP/M-68K and OS-9/68000, as 
> > > well as SunOS, IRIX, etc.  *I* have never owned a machine running any verison 
> > > of MS-Windows (I did have a box that dual booted MS-DOS and Linux).
> > > 
> > 
> > VTs?  How about a VAX 11/782 with two LA120s, one per CPU. :-)
> > 
> > There were advantages in hardcopy consoles when dealing with system
> > crashes or boot problems.
> 
> I did use a LA120 on a PDP-15...

Ah, I only ran RSX on a PDP-11.  Did you ever come across the SB "Shoe
Box"-11 systems?  We used them as graphics processors on CAD
workstattions linked to the VAX by RS232 serial lines.

> > 
> > Oh, I will confess to once owning W95 and W98 machines, but I do
> > remember finally issuing the command "# rm -r /C".
> > 
> 

-- 
J Martin Rushton MBCS


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