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I am one of the old gray beards at my job and many of the people around me got their start on their internet careers in the last 5 or 10 years when things like social media and cloud computing were already a thing invented by peopleā¦ cough coughā¦ like me, and they never had to build internet web apps (or ābapps, as we used to call them) with their bare hands.
Finally there are several excellent UNIX environments available. For the beginner, nothing is easier than Nextstep. But if you cannot get the education pricing, then it is rather expensive. LINUX is a public domain UNIX for PC's that is popular and widely supported. It isn't nearly as easy as Nextstep, but many people on the Internet use it for anything you can imagine and will be willing to help if you post a question to a LINUX Usenet news group.
(WWW) Spinning the Web: WWW Servers [from 1994]
I never used Lotus Agenda, but Iām told it was a popular productivity tool for MS-DOS in the late 80s. Iāve been on a retro software rediscovery kick lately, so Iāve decided to give it a whirl and write about my experiences. There is something that appeals to me about using long-abandoned software. Perhaps itās update fatigue, thereās certainly no need to dread a major update breaking something! Regardless, Iāve always enjoyed finding new productivity tools to try out, and Iām not afraid of steep learning curves or getting my hands dirty. Iāll usually choose powerful and flexible software over simplicity. At the moment I mostly use taskwarrior, but Iāve lost count of all the others Iāve tried!
(not dead yet, just pining for the fjords) If that old style interface is your jam, take a look at...
Turbo Vision (TVision for short) is a TUI (Text User Interface) that implements the well known CUA widgets. [..] TVision was developed by Borland (now Imprise) in 1992 (v1.03) as a tool for your TurboC and TurboPascal compilers. Around 1997 the masive use of the Window GUI make the product relative obsolete for commercialization and Borland put the sources in your ftp site, only the C++ version was released. Later they even authorized to the FPC group to use the Pascal sources.
(WWW SourceForge) Turbo Vision
(okay this one is mostly hardware, and it is 55 pages long, so you might want to skip it)
the mainframe running MTS was equipped with 16 I/O channels, each capable of moving data at speeds approaching 3 MB per second ā and it was just keeping up with user demand! Since ethernet could not support moving this amount of data around, we had to get smart and choose a file server equipped with multiple ethernet ports.
(WWW PDF link) Simon Fraser University's Migration to UNIX from MTS [from 1992]
(WWW) Tech Insider blog: Mainframes [is the blog where I found this document]
30 October 2020 by Sardonyx
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