On 6/3/2013 10:38 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Il a les défauts de ses qualités. To wit, the continued reliance on 24-bit addressing.
I think that IBM has no tolerable choice in this. Clients have major investments in functional software, and I can't see them rewriting solely for modernization, and I cannot see IBM forcing the issue.
Remember the effort that went into Y2K remediation, and raise that by two or three magnitudes. I also remember the migration to the S/360; companies using CoBOL primarily needed JCL changes, and companies using ForTran changed to double precision. Companies using FAP or MAP spent a lot of money rewriting their applications.
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