Are there any systems still around running Xerox CP-V or its descendant, Honeywell CP-6? They were both pretty slick systems for their day. CP-V was so stable and adaptable that in the early '80s Honeywell (who took over Xerox support) couldn't get their CP-V customers to migrate off their twenty-year-old Xerox mainframes onto modern Honeywell hardware running GCOS.

So Honeywell wrote CP-6 from scratch. They invented a language called PL-6 then wrote the entire CP-6 OS from the ground up. They liked PL-6 so well they rewrote their existing GCOS systems in it. Unfortunately, Honeywell never figured out how to market CP-6, and dropped support for it within 10 years. Bummer.

I just collect quips — running feet and funny sigs off Slashdot, weird comments from wherever, twisted quotations (O dear User! I am ill at these numbers! I have not art to reckon my groans! Hamlet) — into one massive file. I have a tiny program that does nothing but pick a random quip from the file and display it (or send it to someone else on the network). Someday I'll make a screensaver out of it...

One of the best and most lasting ways of becoming happy is to surround oneself with people that makes you feel happy.

And so you come to Slashdot?