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humananimal
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When windows 3.1 was tested, they were not satisfied with the start-up, because it took several seconds before it was ready. Very slow compared to DOS !!
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LFoxHoney
Tourist
Ye I know, I still got all the original packages with the original disk inside from the old days.
Labraguy5
Citizen of Zooville
There are large companies who are still using Windows 3.1 Server for critical applications
dartel
Prized Citizen of ZV
A lot of government databases still run on Cobal and other pre-DOS languages. Mostly because no one knows how they work anymore, everyone who built the system architecture is dead. So they can't transfer the data to modern systems.There are large companies who are still using Windows 3.1 Server for critical applications
YIMBY
Tourist
Or banks, which can't afford to take their systems down long enough for a minor update, let alone a complete overhaul.
Labraguy5
Citizen of Zooville
They always say if you can learn to develop on legacy AS/400 systems, you'll quickly become rich and never be out of work for the next 50+ years.
dartel
Prized Citizen of ZV
We use AS400 for inventory at my work.
The problem isn't just knowing the language. The real problem is understanding what the person who programmed it 50+ years ago was doing. Programming isn't standardized, "to achieve result A use function Q", there's 1,000 ways to get to the same result, and if a program is 10's of millions of lines of code you may have to go through it line by line following each and every function and call to figure out how it was designed to do what it does.
I used to code in Flash, and if I went back to something I'd done years prior I might have to look at something I wrote for 10 minutes to figure out and remember what I had been doing with it. Imagine trying to figure out what code someone else wrote was doing. That's why commenting in code is so vitally important.
Labraguy5
Citizen of Zooville
There's that, and then since it was first developed you have maybe dozens or hundreds of people in there chopping and changing stuff over the years, and of course there's never any documentation or process flows as to how it was built in the first place. My work uses it and one time they needed a pretty simple process adding to generate an email if an order met certain conditions, but the quote came back at nearly £2 million so the answer was no.
I've done coding for microcontrollers with pretty extensive comments, left it for a few weeks and then had no idea what was going on ?
Ted Danson Machine
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
Well, maybe 3/4...................I never was a fan of Gushers..........HA!
dartel
Prized Citizen of ZV
Gushers yes, never actually liked fruit rollups. They were too chewy/sticky/I-dunno-nasty.
Schuppentier
Citizen of Zooville
Discman.
Ted Danson Machine
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
OMG did you ever try the chocolate fruit roll ups? No one remembers them that I ask lol
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
The original (and very short-lived - I think they were only on the market for about a month, if that long, before they vanished into the mists of "Things that weren't a very good idea and were quickly and mercifully discontinued and forgotten") "Baloney-slicer" version, where the disc protruded (and spun in free air) from the unit, or the later "The disc is actually fully enclosed inside the device during operation" version?
dartel
Prized Citizen of ZV
Maybe? Though given how nasty the fruit ones are I canonly imagine chocolate ones would end up being like chewing a tootsie roll, which are also nasty.
Schuppentier
Citizen of Zooville
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
They always worked for me - so long as I didn't try doing anything (like walking, sitting in a rocking chair, riding a bike or horse, etc) that made 'em jiggle...
Ted Danson Machine
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
Imagine something chocolate flavored that has no chocolate in it. Now imagine that item is the consistency of leather (yes, for some reason the chocolate ones were tougher to chew and pretty much awful)
BUT, on the topic of random one off products from big brand names, did you ever have the Hi-C Ectos? They were made to promote Ghostbusters and the Hi-C was a weird green color
dartel
Prized Citizen of ZV
Oh yeah.
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
Had exactly one of those... Tasted like the most foul perversion of a cross between Squirt (a grapefruit flavored soda that I actually kinda liked back in the day) and Sprite you can imagine, with a lingering aftertaste that strongly reminded me of moldy bread.
But that wasn't the end of the "fun"... The next day, I crapped purple. I think it must have been the coloring they used in it reacting to gut-chemistry.
(These days, I if I drink 3-4 grape sodas or a bunch of grape kool-aid, I can expect to crap fluorescent green the next day. Whenever it happens, I can't help but think of the "Razzberry Zingers" fiasco that's central to the novel version of "Cujo".)
Ted Danson Machine
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
whoa, there's a lot to unpack here
first of all, how dare you mansplain Squirt to me sir
LOL Now if you had been talking about Double Cola or Ski Soda, maybe I'd understand, but doesn't everyone know about Squirt?
I was always a Squirt over Sprite guy. But I can't find it anywhere around here now
Next, PURPLE?
Bud I don't know what kind of processed stuff you used to eat back in the day but turning green food coloring into purple is not normal unless your name is Barney or Grimace lol
Still, I once had a poo come out that I swear had teeth in it (I was like 7 years old and there were two distinct fang like features emerging from my stool and that's all I remember)
Last but not least, that was an amazing Cujo reference and now I want to watch that movie again
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
Squirt seems to have gone extinct, so far as I can tell (though to be honest, I haven't exactly been searching for it), and it seemed to be pretty localized when it still existed - Michigan/Ohio/Illinois/Indiana, plus the eastern part of Wisconsin, and western end of Pennsylvania seemed to be its "turf". I can't remember seeing a bottle (or can) of it since I knocked the dust of Michigan off my boots. Figured it was a "regional" thing that would need explaining. Kinda like Moxie - Until recently (at least as far as I know) that stuff was nearly impossible to find outside of the Maine/Vermont/New Hampshire/northern New York area. (and they're welcome to keep it... How anybody can drink that stuff is *WAY* beyond my comprehension!
Well, I ain't a purple dinosaur, so that's out. And Grimace is queer for the Fry-guys, so that lets me out on that charge. You explain it. I can't, and don't care to explore it beyond noticing that it happened! (Though in honesty, we're not talking "royal purple" - it was a rather "muddy" shade that could have been called "nearly brown" without stretching the imagination much)
Gives a whole new meaning to "getting your ass chewed" <snerk>
Did they include the Razzberry Zingers/Sharps Cereal substory in the movie? It's been so long since I've seen it that I can't remember. No question it's part of the book, but can't recall if it made it into the movie.
Ted Danson Machine
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
I honestly never considered it would be a regional thing, but that makes sense because we have Big Red Soda here and when I've ventured a few states away people look at me like I am confusing a soda with chewing gum (Big Red gum HAS to be nationwide right?)
Well I'm not a doctor but I do know a bit about butt waste. And I hate to be the one to tell you but I'm afraid you have a severe case of SIDS. You should prepare for the worst.
lol
I hate the fact I laughed SUPER loud when I read that lol
Nah, it was just the book but I can always pretend
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
Ted Danson Machine
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
HAHA, yessir
I used to tell my kid that before she understood things lol
*checks temperature* "OMG hon, don't freak out, but I think you have a really bad case of SIDS"
"NOOOOOOO, does that mean I don't havta go to school?"
yea, imagine THAT phone call to the school "Sorry my kid won't make it in today....yea, she's got SIDS something awful"
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
Well, I guess it's better than my second guess, which was even MORE out of context...
Sexually Initiated Damp Spot
Ted Danson Machine
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
OMFG, that's epic
I'm calling the head of science first thing tomorrow morning to see if we can get SIDS officially changed to that lol
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
I've *HEARD OF*, but never actually personally seen, Big Red soda. Isn't it supposed to be real similar to Faygo's "Redpop"? (more or less a standard creme soda, with strawberry flavor added, and colored "vampire-bait red")
Seems I recall hearing/reading that the stuff originated in the Oklahoma panhandle region?
So far as I know, yes. If I'm not mis-remembering, they came out with it nationwide about 1976 or 1977 - First commercial I remember seeing for it was during a re-run of a Land of the Lost episode one Saturday morning. Ran right out and got some the next day, and thought it quite possibly the most foul stuff I'd put in my mouth since the time an OLD (in both the "long time acquaintance", and "only a week or two younger than dirt" senses) friend of the family offered me a stick of Black Jack gum. Of course, if I'm gonna be honest, there isn't much that's considered "edible" that I find to have a more disgusting flavor/smell than anise/fennel. Just the smell of the stuff gives me the urge to puke. One of my nightmare scenarios is sitting down to watch a movie in a theater, and having someone toting a box of good-n-plentys sit down near me. The stench of those things, even from 2-3 rows away, can (and has) caused me to get up and leave.
Anytime I encounter someone eating those, or black licorice, I have to beat down the urge to ask 'em "Why not just grab a dog turd to snack on? It'll smell and taste better!"