In
<985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c231975f...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>,
on 06/18/2013
at 10:24 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]>
said:
>It is my faded-memory impression that it was, as Timothy pointed out,
>DEC's aggressive push of very low-cost and free "stuff" into
>universities that both permitted and accelerated the rise of *ix and
>also contributed to the decline of IBM mainframes on campus (though
>that was not the only reason).
It didn't help that the MVS address space was painfully small compared
to the VAX. It wasn't until MVS/ESA that IBM caught up.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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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