RE: Oracle-L going unmoderated

  • From: Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:19:00 +0200

He He Very Mladen San, just kidding.
Of course I know Mogens' obsession with Very Mighty Systems, Very
Unmoderate Scotch and ancient Oracle software.

Let's stop this or you'll have to ask me to bring this OT item off-list.
;-)

Carel-Jan
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:07, Gogala, Mladen wrote:

> It stands for Very Mighty System. It is the best operating
> system that I've ever seen. VMS help was far better and far
> more use friendly then Unix man pages. Monitor was state of the
> art, and you can't get anything even remotely like it on Unix,
> not even if you pay. Files-11 had clustering capabilities since
> VMS 4.2, which was very , very long time ago. DEC has always
> been a company with great engineering and apalling sales force,
> that's why they ended up as a part of a nice printer company, as 
> Mr. Scott McNeally has put it. VMS is still unbeaten as an operating
> system. Particularly good was EVE (not the woman who used to  
> talk to reptiles and didn't know how to make an apple pie, but 
> the Extended VAX Editor).
> 
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> A & E TV Network
> Ext. 1216
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carel-Jan Engel [mailto:cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:51 PM
> > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Oracle-L going unmoderated
> > 
> > 
> > VMS, what does that stand for? Very Moderate Scotch? I 
> > thought you're taste was better ;-) Carel-Jan
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