Posts by Ray Barto

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

Re: So much forgotten

I still have a copy of Xerox Ventura Publisher (DOS-GEM) on both 3.5 and 5.25 floppies. I loved that program. Put in thousands of hours on it. My first hard lesson in consumer software: technical superiority is no guarantee of success in the market place. Last I looked, GEM is still the interface for the Xerox DocuTech system.

Don't read this, Oracle... It's the rise of the open-source data strategies

RDBMS? Really? How out of touch do we have to be to make this distinction between relational and flat database? Have we not been in relational database land for oh, I don't know, 30 years or so? Sheesh. Call it something else. Get in front of it or become obsolete. RDBMS? I had to stop and remind myself what the R stands for. Sorry. I'm not a programmer, but still.

NIST: People have given up on cybersecurity – it's too much hassle

One easy solution is to stop using a computer for anything important.