1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 25 Jun 2006	Volume 2006 : Issue 350       Contents: Alpha remembrance day  WordPerfect 5.1 demo [OT]:  Update ?  Re: [OT]:  Update ?   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:36:09 -0400 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com>  Subject: Alpha remembrance day, Message-ID: <449E20A6.B82DDD49@teksavvy.com>  A It was 5 years ago today that the IT equivalent of a war criminal C committed the genocide of a perfectly healthy computer acrhitecture 2 based on his ethnicity (Digital instead of Intel).  ! June 25 2001, the day Alpha died.     E It was on June 25 2001 that Michael "Curly" Capellas, then CEO of the H now defunct Compaq Computer Corporation announced the death sentence forC Alpha. It was guilty of competing against Intel and giving Compaq a B technological edge over Intel, Compaq's main strategic supplier ofD chips. Compaq mutilated itself to maintain its friendhip with Intel.    C It is now known that Capellas had already engaged negotiations with ? Carleton "Carly" Fiorina, then CEO of HP for HP to purchase the D leftovers of Compaq that had been without stewardship since Curly, aB simple accountant, was asked to become CEO because nobody else had* wanted the job after Pfeiffer was ousted.     0 June 25 2001, the day Capellas euthanised Alpha.    F Michael "Curly" Capellas takes a prominent spot on the Digital Hall ofD Shame, along with his peer Robert Palmer who suffocated Digital intoE extinction. Hopefully one day, both can be tried at the International D Computer Court in The Hague with Curly charged with  genocide of theI Alpha architecture. Both  should be held accountable for their IT crimes.     7 June 25 2001, the day customers were wounded by Compaq.   D The strength of Alpha is clearly visible today, 5 years after it wasF injected with the deadly venom: Alpha is still popular and competitiveE in the computer industry.   Mark Hurd, current CEO of HP, will commit E another computer crime this october when he will prohibit the sale of C new Alpha computers, despite there still being a healthy demand for  Alpha systems.  F June 25 2001, the day Compaq (and now HP) lost the trust of customers.  F Murdering a perfectly functional and highly performant and establishedF architecture in order to help a  malformed baby nobody wants. Where'reF the logic ? An abortion should have been performed on that IA64 misfit< instead of the genocide on a perfectly healthy architecture.    H June 25 2001, the day Alpha engineers got an arrow shot into their heart and sold to the devil.    E 5 years ago today, a grave injustice was committed. While we can hope E the guilty will be tried and punished for their crime, we must take a G minute  to remember Alpha, the great chip architecture that lead the IT ? world in performance for so many years and whose brief life was  terminated at its prime.  E And we must also remember all the engineers who had worked so hard to G build that great architecture and developped so many features that lead  the industry.     G We should each take a minute to remember Alpha, our dear beloved friend D today.  There is some comfort in that, while the architecture may beF dead and unable to produce more Alphas, existing Alphas will likely go to heaven (hobbyists!)...     
 IN MEMORIAM.    H Alpha. Killed 5 years ago by Michael Capellas in a hainous crime against the IT industry.   ------------------------------    Date: 24 Jun 2006 17:33:15 -0700 From: tomarsin2015@comcast.net Subject: WordPerfect 5.1 demo B Message-ID: <1151195595.277327.286730@r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>  D I just installed a demo package of WordPerfect 5.1. According to the manual you only needA to invoke the WordPerfect license utility input the info from the C license pak, since WordPerfect doesnot use the standard VMS license G utility and, you should be up and running. Well its not working. I keep 5 getting the ? marks. Is there a secret to getting the G demo package to work?? This is just a hobbyist system so does that make  a difference??6 I should state that I got the software from a auction. tks    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:35:41 +1000 $ From: Phaeton <phaeton@iinet.net.au> Subject: [OT]:  Update ?I Message-ID: <449de86d$0$6653$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>   < 	Could we ( in far away places ) get some info/update/reportA 	on Sue's knees, please ? I am pretty sure that they are shapely, 5 	but some nasty doctors did cut into them recently... " 	How is she recuperating ? Thanks.@                                                  Cheers,   Csaba  E --------------------------------------------------------------------- F   CSABA I. HARANGOZO  |d|i|g|i|t|a|l|  phaeton at iinet dot net dot auE --------------------------------------------------------------------- <     EARTH::AUSTRALIA:[SYDNEY]HARANGOZO.CSABA;1, delete? [N]:     Shaw's Principle :+    Build a system that even a fool can use, -          and only a fool will want to use it.    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:20:33 -0400 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com>  Subject: Re: [OT]:  Update ?, Message-ID: <449DF2DB.EB8D2FC8@teksavvy.com>   Phaeton wrote: > E >         Could we ( in far away places ) get some info/update/report J >         on Sue's knees, please ? I am pretty sure that they are shapely,> >         but some nasty doctors did cut into them recently...+ >         How is she recuperating ? Thanks.   H Sue is like VMS. When things are succesfull, you don't get a message :-)  F But yeah, getting some news from/about her would be nice for the wholeB VMS community that is waiting with baited breath for her return to+ champion our favourite operating system :-)    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2006.350 ************************