On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:59:13 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: > >Me too, never even thought of megabytes until the pc slam dunk artists came >along, everyone I knew calculated their file size in tracks or cyls. As >someone tod me new world order....lol > I would have expected that during technology transitions with a mixture of DASD geometries in a shop, bytes or records would have been the invariant metric of data set size, therefore the most convenient. Perhaps it was just bigotry, evident in the characterization in the paragraph above: "We're dinos; we don't do megabytes!"
But then there's volume capacity which, in megabytes, is not invariant, even for a single volume of a single given model. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
