In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/09/2005
at 03:55 PM, Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Your computer has always been made up of multiple processors
650/MP ;-)
>You know that a Coupling Facility has nothing to do with the
>railroad
Bordello?
>You remember HIPO and know that it's not a zoo animal
That's a matter of opinion. HIPO as promised did not match HIPO as
published.
>You know why blue cables and not grey
Serpents have nothing to do with Herpetology. You don't ride in a bus
of play tag.
>You know what DISOSS is and it doesn't scare you
Parse error; unasble to reconcile "and it doesn't scare you".
>You know that Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detect is
>how a token succeeds in life.
No; Token Ring is CSMA/CA, not CSMA/CD.
>You don't "boot" a system, you IPL it
Depending on the vendor you bootstrap it or dead start[1] it.
>You don't know what throwing an exception means,
Why not?
>If someone mentions BDAM, you know they're not swearing
If I mention BDAM or ISAM, I will probably be swearing in the same
conversation.
>You think you can fix the jam in the MFCM
You don't expand MF as multi-function.
>If you remember the sequence PCP, MFT, MVT.
SSS, MSS, MPS, VMS; PCP, MFT, MVT, MFT II.
>If you know that much of FORTRAN was writen in FORTRAN!!
Only FORTRAN (H).
>You know what MIPS originally meant, and can explain why it doesn't
>mean that today
It means the same thing today; it was undefined then and still is.
>You know that PCP is an operating system, not a recreational
>pharmaceutical
Some would allege a connection.
You don't play a drum and you don't slip a disk.
[1] Di mortui nihil nisi bonum.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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