On 31 Dec 2007 12:45:20 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Twenty years ago, I got a Macintosh SE, in large part so my >girlfriend could write her doctoral dissertation in music. >Would I have taken an s/370 (XA?) at the time for personal >use?. Not if it were free; not if it were in a package I >could carry. How many of us today, given a z/OS system that >weighed 5 pounds and cost $1000 would make that our only >computer and OS? Wouldn't we each still need another computer, >or at least a partition on the same one, for Email, Web >browsing, document preparation, access to IBMLink, etc.?
And IBM recognizes this by giving you an alternative OS. (Although that OS needs to be ASCII with a big GUI library). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
