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

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Thu Jun 22 17:46:33 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.
>

Except I wasn't replying to Allison. I know she knows what's going on :^)

                   Zane
Received on Thu Jun 22 2000 - 17:46:33 BST