On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 03:03 +0000, john gilmore wrote: > Perhaps the principal threat to the survival of mainframes is little talked > about: It is that mainframe applications are, most of them, implemented > gratuitously using circa-1970 (applications) technology.
... preceded a little by gil: > It's ironic; I feel I'd have better odds of running a 30-year-old > program unmodified than a 10-year-old program. Strikes me as an rare confluence of (these) minds. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
