2006 Sonata traction control vs 4WD?

[Jody]

get some good snow tires, you wont have a problem with the sonata unless its
passed the bumper deep..

 

[gerry]

[original post is likely clipped to save bandwidth]

I worked in Software Services, primary job was doing custom software
development for DEC's customers, secondary was going out on pre-sales
calls with the sales droids. (That was always a picnic!) In those days
it was IBM that was the "evil empire."

I miss DEC a lot, really a shame what happened to that company;

Well Compaq sure worked over DEC employees, you might be interested in

http://gogood.com/once_dec/index.html

I remember when I started working with separate I & D space machines,
the freedom of all that extra address space!! I always dreaded getting
the TKB message that the task was too large, as setting up overlays was
always a PITA. Today's software in incredibly bloated, I remember
fighting for every byte that could be conserved. I've toyed with the
idea of trying to find an old Micro-11 to play around with, it would be
fun.

It sort of bugs me I tossed out 3 11/23s and 1 one 11/83 with enough stuff
to put together 2 systems in working order.

re memory - I recall the 11/04 bootstrap that had to work with RX01 and
RX02s with 32 words! (64 bytes). It took 8 authors!

DEC's systems have not died off completely. I have a friend working in
a shop that still runs VMS (actually OpenVMS) on Alpha hardware. There
certainly are still PDP-11s out there, quietly doing their jobs. That
segment of DECs business was sold to Mentec (www.mentec-inc.com) which
still provides hardware and software support for the PDP-11 line.

I don't recall the company but a German outfit had the right to build
11/83 class systems and used it at least until 1999 so you can be sure
they still are in use. Unfortunately I lost my contact during the Compaq
changeover.

An interesting recent Alpha article

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20060123PR200.html

gerry