At Sat, 3 Nov 2018 14:38:03 +0000 J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: Re: Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024
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> On 03/11/18 02:31, Robert Heller wrote:
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> <snip>
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> > 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).
> >
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> VTs? How about a VAX 11/782 with two LA120s, one per CPU. :-)
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> There were advantages in hardcopy consoles when dealing with system
> crashes or boot problems.
I did use a LA120 on a PDP-15...
>
> Oh, I will confess to once owning W95 and W98 machines, but I do
> remember finally issuing the command "# rm -r /C".
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