Should I add a "Micro" PDP11/73 to the Herd?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Jun 22 17:26:30 2000

Zane replied to Allison:
> Do you have any understanding of the computer industry? Do you have any
> understanding of computers larger than your Windows box? Do you even look
> at the licenses of any software you have purchased? I'm fairly sure you
> don't remember the days when you didn't even own the computer, you rented
> it, or rented time on one.

And in the days before you rented the software for the mainframe from the
vendor, you got the software for FREE from the vendor. Allison correctly
pointed out that before some point these damn software licenses didn't
exist.
Received on Thu Jun 22 2000 - 17:26:30 BST