quoting John Gilmore's " I of course expected this response. Litanies in defense of the old
and familiar are recurrent here, but repetition does not make them meritorious. They are of a piece with the suspiciously repetitive, insular, risk-averse, mediocre notions that are ruining, have indeed largely ruined, the mainframe, a splendid platform that is now used in mostly ignominious ways.
" Sir John, even you and me, for that matter 99.9999999999 % of us consumers, we don't waste much thought about the sheer beauty of the processor's architecture when we turn up the thermostat, skip a track on our MP3 player or withdraw some cash at an ATM.
S/360 Architecture lovers, the 0.0000000001 % exception, they enjoy playing with MVS 3.8j running at 10x the speed of an IBM 370/168 on their own PC, something which 99.9999999999 % of the population doesn't understand... :) Andreas F. Geissbuehler
