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From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley)
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Subject: [OT] VMS, was: Re: ON Topic: Ada for CP/M
Date: 5 Jun 2002 07:09:39 -0600
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In article <ad8fib$aq8$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> 
> But then none of us VMS Bigots will likely be happy with anything else until
> it looks and works exactly like VMS. :-)
> 
> You know you're a VMS bigot when:
> 
> You think case sensitivity is some ones idea of an April Fools joke
> 
> You keep trying to use the EDT keypad in Word.
> 

If anyone knows how to do this in Word, feel free to let me know. :-)

> You know why the SHOW SYSTEM display had to have the "system uptime"
> field increased beyond 999 days.
> 
> etc. etc. etc.
> 

You can find the full list here (as well as many other places):

http://axp603.gsi.de:8080/www/vms/fun/bigot.htmlx

Of course, what would be fun would be an Ada version.

Simon.

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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP       
Microsoft: The Lada of the computing world.