Posts by Mike Joseph

Firefox 3.5 patch coming soon as Mozilla cranks up downloads

Crash after crash

Wish I had not updated! I just want something that works.

Will give up and use Opera or IE.

This sucks.

What if computers went back to the '70s too?

Oh the memories!

And what about ICL? Everyone in the UK wanted them there except the UK government who seemed not to care...

And yes, the VAX was superb to work on! As a consultant, the environments I worked in varied from legal, engineering, system support, satellite comms - it did it all and it worked. The command set (Digital Command Language, DCL) was consistent in its qualifiers - unlike unix and DOS. This made it easy to use and some of our users developed quite complex programs to aid their work. The only fault was that I could not have one at home!

And bear in mind that the PDP-11 (I worked on that too) celebrated its' 21st birthday since it was still being installed into body scanners in the 90s, it being simple, very fast and utterly reliable.

Mike