Searching for the Oldest Running Application 435
A columnist from InternetWeek has completed a search for the oldest running commercial software application. His results are interesting (note that he's mostly skipping over mainframe applications, just looking at PC-based apps).
It's got to be (Score:5, Funny)
Oldest and most influential.... (Score:4, Funny)
Does he use the Spinocylinder? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that's a guy I want to be adjusting my back. Probably doesn't believe in that 'new fangled' aspirin for aches, either.
From his previous article ... (Score:3, Funny)
I bet he must have got gazillion entries
Longest running app? (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotted... (Score:5, Funny)
Scorched Earth myself (Score:4, Funny)
MS Flight SImulator (Score:5, Funny)
I'd say 100 years is a fairly long-running app.
Re:Does he use the Spinocylinder? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's got to be (Score:4, Funny)
20 GOTO 10
And this is filler, since my impersonation of pre-shift key BASIC triggered the lameness filter
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Re:MS Flight SImulator (Score:5, Funny)
I guess that would make it 2000 years old now.
How about version numbers? Emacs is on 21.something now. I think AutoCad is up in the 16 range by now.
Re:My Dad Still uses Lotus 123 (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here... [/tongueincheek]
Is your application running? (Score:3, Funny)
n00b!
Re:Mainframe (Score:5, Funny)
This is obviously an apocryphal story.
Who can spot the inconsistancy that gives this fakery away?
Exactly.
We all know
Re:Mainframe (Score:5, Funny)
that's nothing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's got to be (Score:5, Funny)
It was the 3rd grade, what did you expect?
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Re:It's got to be (Score:5, Funny)
I win (Score:3, Funny)
Re:pay at INRIA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's got to be (Score:5, Funny)
That's going to produce 0HELLO WORLD as repeating output, which I don't think is what you want. LN is an uninitialized variable. PRINTLN isn't a valid command, but it'll get interpreted as PRINT LN, which will display as 0.
(The scary part is that I fired up Applewin to verify those results...I was going to fire back ?SYNTAX ERROR IN 10 as a reply. I have no life. :-) )
Re:Mainframe (Score:2, Funny)
What's the difference between a /. girlfriend and an elephant?
About 200lbs!
How do you make them the same?
Put the Elephant on a diet!
Ah yes, humor at its worst...
Re:Mainframe (Score:3, Funny)
More like a CRT with wires to a grey box with led's and optical drives? The only reason i have a gf is she hasn't read my browser history.. "Oh, you read slashdot?" (puts shirt back on, walks out door).. Now if she found out i posted as well...
It's at SAC running on a CDC 11 bit Cyber ... (Score:1, Funny)
MOV _PTR_INCMING_SOVIET_WARHEAD_CNTR, A
MOVB (A), B
TESTB B, B
JE PRAY_WE_GO_THERE
CALL _RETALIATE
RET
Re:Does he use the Spinocylinder? (Score:3, Funny)
So he's still using opium? Heck, in that case sign me up!
Re:My Dad Still uses Lotus 123 (Score:3, Funny)
I still find myself wanting to do 'reveal codes' in Word 2000...
I always liked... (Score:5, Funny)
10 Print "Shit!";
20 Goto 10
and walking away.
later, that evolved into:
10 Print "Fuck You!!";
20 y$=inkey$:if y$="" OR y$"" then 10
which basicly grabs the 'break' from the buffer before it can be processed, requiring a reboot to clear.
Adding the line (before executing)
basica fuck.bas
to the autoexec.bat ran the program from boot.
Truly evil, we were.
Re:It's got to be (Score:2, Funny)
Re:that's nothing (Score:2, Funny)
Trick question!
Slashdotposters don't have lives...
=)
Re:Mainframe (Score:2, Funny)
Re:old program (Score:2, Funny)
I hope when I die, someone says....
"SamBeckett died right after the 30 year aniversery of Futurama rerun on Tuesday night right after Geriatric Friends"