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I think it's time to give these young upstarts a "When I Was Your Age" tirade...
When I was your age, we breadboarded our equipment - none of those fancy macros
for us, nosirreebobcattail!
When I was your age, we knew exactly what all those flashing lights stood for.
When I was your age, we strung our own core memory.
When I was your age, we coded assembler by candlelight.
When I was your age, we had a single screen color and were darned grateful for
it.
When I was your age, all we had for entertainment was a non-interactive Trek
game.
When I was your age, a megabyte used to MEAN something.
And when they stop laughing at that, tell them how much throughput and multi-tasking a
mainframe can do compared to their wimpy Windows boxes. How many servers it takes to
match even ONE z/OS system, and how much floor space, electricity, and software
maintenance that takes by comparison. How you live in a world where there is NO
"blue screen of death." How your systems can handle thousands of transactions
per second, when theirs clog up with only dozens. How your DASD can beat up their DASD.
How you can't infect a mainframe with a virus.
And then, make them buy you a REAL (non-Starbucks) cup of coffee.
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Add: When I was your age, we debugged our programs from the CPU front
panel.
Skip the coffee; let him by me a real drink, with some real liquor in
it, instead of this "soda pop" the kiddies drink these days. Whose idea
was it to mix cranberry juice with vodka, anyway?
Consider this: you spend the first two years with children teaching them
to walk and talk, and the next eighteen telling them to sit down and
shut up!
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