Path: news.mitre.org!blanket.mitre.org!philabs!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!pacifier!139.121.16.104.MISMATCH!mvb.saic.com!info-vax From: Brian McMahon Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Making the transition from VMS to UNIX, NT, Netware, etc. Message-ID: <01IS3F061I1G9X3I4R@Cisco.COM> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 11:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Info-Vax<==>Comp.Os.Vms Gateway X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List Lines: 26 Quoth Michael : >I would like to hear about other people's experience in making the >transition from the VMS world to the PC environment. I need to build my >PC skills. The best preparation is to practice saying the following essential phrases: "NOW what?" "Locked up AGAIN?" "What a piece of garbage." "What the #%@*!?" "They call this SOFTWARE?" "Time to reboot." "People pay MONEY for this crap?" "Did they test this AT ALL?" And so on. Best part about this training is that the skills also transfer seamlessly to UNIX environments. -- Brian McMahon , Customer Support Engineer, Cisco Systems Old: Cisco (formerly TGV) (now owned by Process) MultiNet Technical Support New: Supporting Cisco Access technology (ISDN and such) This message is another sign of the general decline of Western civilization.