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Re:Has Mainframe Computing Inadvertently Started Its Own Cul... by lproven on Thursday May 26, 2022 @04:08AM (#31515902)
Just curious: in what ways?

I started out on VAXen before I learned DOS or Xenix, and frankly, I preferred it.

File versioning was wonderful and with that as a basis, we'd never have needed the vile baroque mess that is Git.

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Re:Has Mainframe Computing Inadvertently Started Its Own Cul... by arethuza on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:42AM (#31516419)
The Burroughs user environment was a thing called CANDE - which really wasn't much fun at all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDE

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Re:Has Mainframe Computing Inadvertently Started Its Own Cul... by lproven on Friday May 27, 2022 @04:02AM (#31527145)
How odd. That sounds very strange, but now I want to try it. :-)
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