In <ofbf7c2442.99fbbc60-on4925751d.00263b79-4925751d.002f9...@us.ibm.com>,
on 12/12/2008
at 05:39 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> said:
>Here's another way to think about it (and explain it) that might work. In
>1964, the business world changed when the System/360 was announced. Now
>you could write a program and that program was divorced from the
>hardware.
ObQoheleth That is not new, it has already been, for there is nothing new
under the sun.
Prior to S/360, people code and did move code from, e.g., GE 625->635, IBM
7070->7074, IBM 7090->7094. Those specific migrations were actuially
smoother than S/360->S/370. BTDT,GTS.
>You could (and to this very day still can) run that program on any
>model, big or small, and carry it forward all the way to 2008's
>System z10 and beyond.
There were incompatibilities.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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