On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Kirk Talman <[email protected]> wrote:
> There have been several various good answers to this problem.
>
> As a certified alte kacker, I would like to comment on what this tells us
> about the state of mainframe IT.
>
> - Apparently one can be in "Operating Systems Support" w/o having been an
> application programmer. One of the advantages many of us older persons on
> this list and in the industry have is that we have "seen it before". The
I've never been in applications. I came out of college directly into
systems programming. The reasons were: (1) I confused the bleep out of
the applications' manager who referred me to the systems' manager ("I
have a candidate for you. I don't understand a damn thing he's
saying!") (2) I knew OS JCL (they were converting from DOS/VS; (3) I
was a bit twiddler even out of college (read the PoPS manual the the
"OS/MVS Data Areas" manual). I'm still quite weird, but have not, yet,
embraced making Linux kernel changes.
--
This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an
actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you?
Maranatha! <><
John McKown
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