Cool. Wow. MP2000's. Talk about reliability! Yeah we rented time on one of those for years. Perfect for development. The guy always said backup your software cuz it could quit at any time. Far as I know, still running :) Congrats to you on that.
Duffy Nightingale Sound Software Printing, Inc. www.soundsoftware.us [email protected] Phone: 360.385.3456 Fax: 973.201.8921 The information in this e-mail, and any attachment therein is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please return the e-mail to the sender and delete it from your computer. Although Sound Software Printing, Inc. attempts to sweep e-mail and attachments for viruses, it does not guarantee that either are virus-free and accepts no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of EXT-Schwarz, Barry Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Length question Up until 18 months ago, we had a billion dollar, as in giga, customer running on MP2003s using OS/390 1.3. If we had told them that they would have to upgrade to a current operating system based on IBM's support schedule along with the corresponding hardware upgrade, we would never have made that sale in 1999 nor been gainfully employed providing support for the past decade and a half. Pontificate all you want but those of us whose organizations and jobs depend on serving the customer within his political and financial constraints make no apology for doing so. BTW, when did making a profit become ignominious? > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas F. Geissbuehler > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 6:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Length question > > 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
