His boss wrote fortran on OS/360 (and liked it!). WatFOR, WatFIV, IBM
FORT-G and FORT-H, with intermediate step manual optimization.
atmospheric models and radar propagation models, plus a few system hacks
(how high can the paper arch coming out of the line printer at full-rate
pate-eject?).
I doubt we could convince someone to free up enough systems and time
to load Hercules up and run that way but it might be fun. In an odd,
perverted sorta way.
Peter St. John wrote:
Matt,
First, I don't understand how a "technoronin" can have a boss :-)
I only saw OS360 through Brook's Mythical Man Month; by the time I did
fortran on big iron it was VM/CMS. But if you have the hardware drawing
power already, then sure, cluster 'em :-)
Peter
On 6/24/08, *Matt Lawrence* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Peter St. John wrote:
MS isn't famous for new development (as scientists see "new
development")
but a few hundred engineers would not be such a big investment
for them.
I'd be more interested in a comparison of that many whatever,
quad core
xeon? running linux vs MS's running Cluster Server 2008. CP/M
could be a
pretty powerful OS if it ran on enough nodes :-) and of course I
think of XP
as CP/M v.99 (approximately) (although that isn't fair to VMS,
the forebear
of NT)
I'm sorely tempted to try to run a cluster of OS/360 systems just to
say it has been done. Should be pretty easy using Hercules/390.
Since my boss reads this list, I'm not sure if he will be amused or
appalled at the idea. probably both.
-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.
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