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OpenVMS hobbyist. MRO brat exploring the systems I grew up with. (he/him)

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yeah, that unfortunate. it sucks how you're getting treated like a bigot merely for being, in public, a massive fucking bigot https://t.co/Hfc8TctFNY

[Enny 🔞 @EnnyishQuil]

@Candi_Dragoness @Jennanby The only shit that's being thrown is coming at me from your direction.

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@HoffmanLabs i feel like Murphy was just trying to tell people "deploying stuff that allows Mistakes to happen will guarantee that those Mistakes will, somewhere, sometime, actually occur" and wound up with all this weird religion attached to his name

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@VMSSoftware I gotta be honest, "you agree to provide reasonable participation in the online Software community forums" is one of the most patently ludicrous license terms I've yet encountered.

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@HoffmanLabs Unrelated, but it reminds me of how "the greatest thing since sliced bread", as a phrase, passed from a generation who saw it invented, to a generation who thought it had always existed, with its meaning more or less intact.

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Here's something I figured out as a kid on DEC VTs:

ESC # 3 o ␍␊
ESC # 4 v

It looks like a gem.

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@HoffmanLabs I've always thought the inefficiency was the worst problem with them, tbh. Fraud is bad, but it doesn't tend to contribute to droughts and wildfires...

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@HoffmanLabs when you're promoted out of supporting it into supporting stuff you can't even begin to understand, in my experience

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@bogglesnatch even if stuff like that was available though, it'd be hard to use these days because of how irretrievable overloaded "terminal emulator" is as a term.

MESS has a semi-working VT220 emulator, at least.

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I remember there being a lot of games and cool fun stuff for OpenVMS back in the day. It's too bad it was all labeled "DIGITAL INTERNAL USE ONLY" -- it might've been helpful for VMS's cultural relevance otherwise.

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@bogglesnatch it was amazing, i wish i still had it! it had springs and bricks and pushers and a protagonist, all through terminal soft fonts

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@toresbe i do hope @textfiles knows about this delightful detail

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It's too bad Kyoko didn't have a name three words long. With a proper TLA it could've gotten an SPD and then DEC could've sold PAKs for five thousand bucks a pop.

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As far as I can tell, Kyoko is now entirely gone. Which is a situation with all downsides and no upsides.

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@toresbe @OlaKander well, i certainly wouldn't know. if they have their notifications turned on still, maybe we'll find out.

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@HoffmanLabs i used to know a VAXmate. it had, installed on it, MS-DOS 3, MS Windows 1, and the Form virus. (I suspect Form's keyclick activation didn't work properly on the VAXmate.)

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@HoffmanLabs i haven't kept track. is Windows -- commendable Unicode early adopter -- still stuck with UTF-16 in its APIs?

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@HoffmanLabs let them know you fixed your own problem and send them an invoice