In a message dated 8/26/2005 7:08:06 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Jim Garner (IBM SE) did an orange book 20+ years ago on a similar vein. (this was still 165 and 155 days). My memory is dim but I think he had similar findings. ... 165/155 -- what are those? Ed, you're losing it. 20 years ago was XA. I started with a 3033, 24 years ago. Just because technology/processor X was the latest and greatest 20 years ago does not mean that there were not many shops still using X-2 at that time. I worked with a 3033/MVS in early 1978. Then a few months later worked with the U.S. government's trailing edge equipment -- S/360 models 40, 50, 65, et al., mostly running MVT (one even MFT) with 2314. And that was with the FAA, whose "modern" equipment was keeping commercial jets from bumping into each other in the air. Been there, worked with it then. Got the fun scars. Then saw XA climb up out of the primordial ooze in 1983. I recommended reading Merrill's 21-year-old paper not because of its technical currency but because of its methodology and continually asking the question "is there yet one more variable I can tweek? And if so will it make things "better" or "worse", and for whom?" These questions are timeless in their application. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
