Amen Mr. Gilmore, wise words as ever. But if one reads Mr Wheeler's oft repeated arduous comments, I have to wonder how anyone else in IBM invented/developed anything without his assistance, and how IBM survived the 80s. How they survive today without his knowledge and expertise is beyond my comprehension. As an old neighbor of mine in Wales (Bertrand Russell) once said, 'The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd'. My apologies to ListServ and Darren if my comments are offensive to anyone, I'm suffering from a surfeit of Mr. Wheeler's aggrandizement.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bertrand_russell.html#EfeYsfQFhxKETBr4.99 ALH -----Original Message----- From: John Gilmore <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:47 Subject: Re: SHARE Blog: News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead Lynn Wheeler's numbers are arithmetically correct, but they are also problematic. Mainframe channels perform multiple concurrent I/O operations that are not adequately reflected in them. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
