In another thread, Jon Perryman wrote, in part: >[You're] on a multi-million dollar computer shared by thousands.
Pure curiosity here: Without getting into any theology about futures, or that obviously a single, relatively small app or even database could be used in some sense by thousands of users via the network: How many users do sites typically have these days? In 1986, University of Waterloo had over 20,000 VM users (on four 4341s running Adesse Single-System Image), which was considered well beyond the pale by most. We had several thousand logged on at once. Now, that was VM (VM/SP, to be precise). How many users does your z/OS shop have defined, and what's your daily high-water mark of logons? We're a tiny dev shop, so have a grand total of about four humans who touch z/OS using keyboards, and one of them only does USS stuff. That's presumably not typical; I mention it just in the spirit of fair play. Again, this is purely curiosity-I am not contending that it proves anything (except what we already know, which is that thanks to networking, there are a lot of users and uses that show no visible signs of touching the mainframe, yet are 100% dependent on it). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
