I am glad someone noticed the curriculum at NIU. I graduated from NIU back in 2002 and was fortunate to take Sys Prog class under Dr. Rannie. We built what we called a Student Operating system.Some of the things we did in the couse was to write our own SVC's, FLIH's, and Channel Programs. It was one of the most intensive and fun class I had taken.I woudnt be a Sys Prog if not for couple of courses by Dr.R and Mike Stack.Unfortunately they are no longer offered at NIU.
I think many people get the wrong impression seeing Dr. R at Share. He has this difft personality as a professor and he is not kidding when he writes: "One of those rules is that a program which does NOT DO WHAT IT > IS SUPPOSED TO DO -- REGARDLESS of how long or how hard or how much you > 'sweat blood over it', is still, just, and only, a pile of chicken > scratchings. It is NOT 50% or 10% or ANY percent a program! IT IS AN > UN-PROGRAM!" An example of the above is we had a sorting assignment and usually we run by his office to make sure things are ok with assigments. One of my classmate after succesfully completing the assignment and showing it to Dr.R turned in the "wrong print out(which did not sort the Input)"...guess what he got???? 0% I am sure if any NIU grads are reading this they would remember his BB's!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
