The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Schmidt) writes: > It seems to me that only a few years ago (and probably in many of the > hundreds of recycled "I remember when..." threads lately) we were, as > a group, lamenting that we were all getting older and there was little > new blood being introduced to the mainframe. We were also having > 'sour grapes' discussions about workload moving off the mainframe and > companies abandoning the mainframe altogether. one of the issues ... especially on the usenet side ... was that the start of each new semester ... there would be a some new flurry of homework questions ... as individuals taking a computer class and getting possibly their first exposure to terminals and online infrastructures. as online infrastructures starting to permeate the whole culture ... it is now possible to find homework questions happening all thru the yr. there is some balance between answering questions where the askee has actually made some attempt to learn something ... or is using the list in lieu of having to learn anything. misc. past posts mentioning homework issue: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#28 Homework: Negative side of MVS? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#32 Homework: Negative side of MVS? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#70 what is interrupt mask register? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#38 Why SMP at all anymore? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#11 Memory management - Page replacement http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#25 Use of ICM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#75 Disappointed http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#0 Disappointed http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#0 7.2 Install "upgrade to ext3" LOSES DATA http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#32 Number of combinations in five digit lock? (or: Help, my brain hurts) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#2 Need article on Cache schemes http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#32 Biometric Encryption: the solution for network intruders? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#40 e-commerce future http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#83 Questions about computer security http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#58 Spin Loop? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#59 Spin Loop? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#13 Help! Good protocol for national ID card? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#35 META: Newsgroup cliques? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#27 [urgent] which OSI layer is SSL located? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#34 Interrupt in an IBM mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#41 Issues in Using Virtual Address for addressing the Cache http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#46 OSI protocol header http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#4 Dual Signature http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#43 can a program be run withour main memory ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#51 before execution does it require whole program 2 b loaded in http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#61 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#47 very basic quextions: public key encryption http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#34 August 23, 1957 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#1 Single System Image questions http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#50 Cluster computing drawbacks http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#16 Would multi-core replace SMPs? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#2 Mount a tape http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#40 Mainframe vs. xSeries http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#54 Memory Mapped I/O Vs I/O Mapped I/O http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#16 more shared segment archeology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
