Bela Lubkin wrote:
> I stil have lots of contacts in the SCO community and find it
> interesting and fulfilling to give an occasional hand to people using
> the products I was so involved in creating. There is pride in
> workmanship.

That's fine. You are generous and you are not bitter.

I don't think I personally would be able to be so good tempered, had I
worked as an engineer for SCO, after having seen all my work been
trashed because of crazy management decisions.

I salute you.

Brian K. White wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pepe" <pepe@naleco.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
> To: <distro@jpr.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Need help identifying error: A_RSCheckCond interrupt on ha=0
>
>
>> Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
>>> There is a difference between people needing assistance and SCO the
>>> company. Don't you think people that need to run the SCO OS's need
>>> assistance. Or are you just the to hell with everyone not running
>>> something other than an SCO OS. Are you a fanatic?
>> Those who chose to go with SCO and paid for their OS, should get the
>> support they need from that company, which, you know, runs a business for
>> profit(TM).
>>
>> The time to take responsability has come. So said company is a
>> dead-man-walking unable to provide support, all because of its own faults
>> and mismanagements? Too bad.
>>
>> I'm not a fanatic. What made you wonder that?
>>
>> I am asking, why provide free technical support for a company which
>> deserves nothing good?, for a company which sacked the one providing said
>> free technical support? I think it is a rational question, and not a
>> question of fanaticism.
>
> Everyone, however irrational, thinks they are rational, and from some
> special perspective, they are.
>
> You don't sound like a fanatic to me really. Just ignorant and
> inconsiderate.
>
> Ignorant of the fact that for15 or more years SCO was a really great product
> and a really great company and there is nothing anyone who used that system
> all during that time should feel ashamed about.

You *liked* Minix? E-e-w-w-w-w!

> Ignorant of the fact that some day when you are in a jam and need help,
> someone else may say "let him rot, that stupid rehdat user...". Heck I'd say
> that today in your case, now that you've advertised how much you appreciate
> and value altruism.

Please don't tar the redhat users with the same brush. I'm doing a migration
from SCO to RHEL right now.

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> Brian K. White wrote:

> > Ignorant of the fact that for15 or more years SCO was a really great product
> > and a really great company and there is nothing anyone who used that system
> > all during that time should feel ashamed about.
>
> You *liked* Minix? E-e-w-w-w-w!

??!??

Minix was the work of Andy Tanenbaum at the Vrije Universiteit of
Amsterdam. Nothing to do with SCO.

You may perhaps be thinking of Xenix? But even there you are wrong
on two counts. One, SCO started shipping AT&T Unix source based
distributions in 1989, well outside the given 15 year window. Two,
Xenix _was_ a good system in its day. It too was solid and stolid --
boring and behind the leading edge of its time, but very stable. Well
suited for business use, then and for most of the intervening years.

>Bela<

Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> Brian K. White wrote:
>
>>> Ignorant of the fact that for15 or more years SCO was a really great product
>>> and a really great company and there is nothing anyone who used that system
>>> all during that time should feel ashamed about.
>> You *liked* Minix? E-e-w-w-w-w!
>
> ??!??
>
> Minix was the work of Andy Tanenbaum at the Vrije Universiteit of
> Amsterdam. Nothing to do with SCO.

Oh. Goodness, my mistake. I meant "XENIX".

> You may perhaps be thinking of Xenix? But even there you are wrong
> on two counts. One, SCO started shipping AT&T Unix source based
> distributions in 1989, well outside the given 15 year window. Two,
> Xenix _was_ a good system in its day. It too was solid and stolid --
> boring and behind the leading edge of its time, but very stable. Well
> suited for business use, then and for most of the intervening years.

It was a mother to interface with other systems in my direct experience, due
to being so far behind the leading edge. If the few things it happened to do
included what you needed, you were set.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bela Lubkin" <filbo@armory.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@jpr.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: Need help identifying error: A_RSCheckCond interrupt on ha=0


> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> Brian K. White wrote:
>
>> > Ignorant of the fact that for15 or more years SCO was a really great product
>> > and a really great company and there is nothing anyone who used that system
>> > all during that time should feel ashamed about.
>>
>> You *liked* Minix? E-e-w-w-w-w!
>
> ??!??
>
> Minix was the work of Andy Tanenbaum at the Vrije Universiteit of
> Amsterdam. Nothing to do with SCO.
>
> You may perhaps be thinking of Xenix? But even there you are wrong
> on two counts. One, SCO started shipping AT&T Unix source based
> distributions in 1989, well outside the given 15 year window. Two,
> Xenix _was_ a good system in its day. It too was solid and stolid --
> boring and behind the leading edge of its time, but very stable. Well
> suited for business use, then and for most of the intervening years.
>
>>Bela<

I loved xenix. Still do sorta.
Which linux version ever could support as many users in as little ram and as few cpu cycles.

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In article <47dd38b0$1@news.x-privat.org>, Pepe <pepe@naleco.com> wrote:
>Bela Lubkin wrote:
>> # cd /etc/conf/pack.d
>> # find * -name '*.[chaos]' | xargs strings -Fa | grep A_RSCheckCond
>> slha/Driver.o: A_RSCheckCond interrupt on ha=%d id=%d lun=%d tag=%b
>> slha/Driver.o: A_RSCheckCond_Used
>>
>>>Bela<
>
>Bela, why do you keep giving free technical support for the company that
>showed you the door to reduce costs, so it could keep paying its lawyers
>to sue its own customers and the Linux users?
>
>Let it rot!

I first ran across Bela in the Dr.Dobbs forum back about 1986 or
1987. He's one of the most helpful people I've ever met in
my 20+ years of using Usenet.

Bela helps users not companies.

I wish there were more like him.

Bill
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