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William

Most (many?) of us have much sympathy with your list of reasons
expressed with such beautiful irony. One has to move on. Nevertheless
the continuing changes in the media containing current knowledge
presents serious problems for the archivists.

With some difficulty, helped by the Rosetta Stone, our ancestors
cleverly sussed out Babylonic Cuneform. Their task would have been
nigh on impossible if the manuscripts of the time had been stuck on an
a CDROM under some ancient Egyptian 2-bit protocol. Paper and stone do
at least only require eyeballs to read. Long should the Hollerith
card, 9-track tape, 5-hole and 9-hole paper tape be preserved....

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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:50:03 -0500, "William L. Whipple [MVP NT,
TCP/IP]" <Consulting@WLW.Com> wrote:

>Hi, Shawn -
>
>>Why NT is not a true client-server (aka real NOS)
>>- real NOS's don't use a GUI
>
>[snip]
>
>Let me add a few more reasons to your list:
>
>- It doesn't support Core memory.  Core is essential if you want to survive
>power outages without a UPS!
>
>- It requires more than 4K for the OS!  Heck, we used to run 500 dial-in
>users doing their whole businesses on a 4K system, using 110 baud (not K
>Baud) acoustic modems!
>
>- It has no native support for current-loop teletypes. How will we ever
>manage if we don't like those new-fangled video-terminal thingies?  Where's
>your paper backup gonna come from?
>
>- It has no native support for 9-track reel-to-reel self-loading tape
>drives.  How can it possibly read all the millions of tapes written on the
>good old IBM 360 and 370?  Heck, we used those to put Gemini in orbit!

[snip for brevity]

>
>Just my too sense...
>--
>William L. Whipple  -  MS MVP [NT, TCP/IP]
>
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