On 27/3/07 15:19, Mark Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking at my yellow, fan fold, GX20-1850-3 S/370 Reference.
Fourth Edition (November 1976)
Which happens to be the exact month I joined IBM.
Nigel
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I agree that the term open system has been flagrantly misused, primarily
to promote Unix systems at the expense of proprietary systems like z/os
and Windows. I think the idea that Windows is open was put forward by
Microsoft precisely to counter this pro-Unix marketing ploy. And IBM's
response of
On 18/1/07 14:54, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a recent note, Nigel Hadfield said:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:05:25 +
I suppose we should think of open hardware and open software separately.
Anyone is allowed to build an IBM-compatible PC, but not an IBM-compatible
Now, now.
But I really can't think of a non-IBM hardware platform on which I could run
z/Linux. (Oh, go on then.)
Nigel
On 18/1/07 15:12, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a recent note, Nigel Hadfield said:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:05:44 +
I'm not so sure
Well, of course, it depends how you define open. Windows clearly isn't
open source, nor can any company other than Microsoft produce an OS that
looks and feels like Windows. But any company is free to produce a machine
that runs Windows (even Apple!), and that goes a long way towards explaining
Or you could make the rules so complex that there is only one valid
password.
Nigel
On 9/1/07 15:11, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why don't they use single sign-on and passtickets? Also, the fact that they
pander to what people want doesn't make what people want good.
What people
You just need to have the briefcase sent in a taxi, following a respectful
distance behind you. That's the way the new green British Conservative
leader does it.
Nigel
On 23/12/06 17:49, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/23/2006 11:25:34 A.M. Central Standard Time,
On 21/12/06 00:54, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In terms of real lead generation - going out and finding people who hadn't
considered a
mainframe before - all of the PCMs were pathetic. Well, they made no effort
whatsoever. The
strategy was always to find existing IBM users and take
On 22/12/06 15:22, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At that time IBM charged $200,000 to open the doors.
British Telecom, once advised of this policy, went _NUTS_. We called it Lego
bricks -
hardly a week went by without a request to take an engine out of box X and put
it in box Y.
And
On 9/12/06 10:40, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have an illegal copy of z/OS, it is the licensee you got it from that
IBM
will sue, not
you. And one consequence of action is immediate revocation - how would your
company survive
if IBM cancelled its licenses?
I can't believe
It's difficult to see why they are suing, especially when they never sued
PCMs in previous generations. Surely they could simply refuse to licence
z/OS on the PSI machines. That would put PSI out of business just as
quickly.
Nigel
On 5/12/06 18:43, Pinnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Which puts me in mind of the definitions of various kinds of (storage?
something else?):
a) If you can see it, and it's there, it's real.
b) If you can see it, and it's not there, it's virtual.
c) If you can't see it, but it's there, it's transparent.
d) If you can't see it, and it's not there,
On 4/11/06 16:46, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When Amdahl started selling processors, the operating system was free.
When IBM started to charge for it, they knew how much power an Amdahl
processor had and where it fit in the pricing structure.
ISTR there was a perception at that
Not war, just awe. When I saw my first 1403 in 1976, it took me a long time
to accept that the box of paper in the back could possibly have been blank.
Nigel
On 7/8/06 13:45, Daniel A. McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've seen boxes of cards, set innocently on top of a 1403, go scattering
Well, that's the cost of the entire new IT system. What went down this time
was a relatively small part of the NHS's current IT. The BBC (initially at
least) reported this as a SAN failure. This follows swiftly on from a
well-publicised SAN failure at a largish UK ISP, and an entirely
unpublicised
When I worked for Amdahl in the 1980s, the salesmen made great use of the
Computer Users Yearbook. Not sure if this was a UK only phenomenon, but I
think it was compiled by the publisher sending questionnaires to most UK
companies of any size. People seemed happy to answer questions in those
days.
Hmmm - not sure what you mean by download, but after a previous posting of
yours, I clicked on the disclaimer link last week just for the hell of it.
Didn't read it of course.
Nigel
On 28/6/06 14:13, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Factoid of questionable value - requests for MIPS tables
Sounds like asymmetrical economic warfare to me.
Nigel
On 19/6/06 14:11, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, The prices are higher in Europe. For software hardware as well.
It is not subject of taxes, I'm talking about net prices. It's also not
an issue of customs (border taxes).
BTW: taxes
That seems to be a common house style in US newspapers.
On 8/5/06 14:45, Hal Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I.B.M Not a company I am familiar with.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Monday, May 08,
The description on Amazon makes this sound every bit as serious as Y2K.
Nigel
On 5/5/06 14:37, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you find this stuff interesting and a concern you would enjoy the
book Dark Ages II: When the Digital Data Die and some of the related
material on the
On 28/2/06 18:17, john gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But is BSOD, 'Blue Screen of Death' an abbreviation and
not an acronym? I think not.
Well, the only hit on the BBC's news site has BSOD in upper case, so the BBC
think it's an abbreviation :-)
Unfortunately, they don't seem to discuss
BBC is an abbreviation, not an acronym.
On 28/2/06 16:55, Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, shouldn't they be known as the Bbc then?
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:27:46 -0800, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed that the initial-upper-rest-lower style for acronyms
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