Sleigh bells ring...We had an ol' V8 in the basement that only did SWIFT. It queued the requests until it got to a billion then would do the transfer. We'd get the float on the interim. Good solid revenue producer. Then one day it 'thermalled'. They had boxes and boxes of components trucked in from Sunnyvale. Still took about 22hrs to get it back online. There were so many 'suits' wandering around the OPs manager came and said 'Listen up, if you're not a CE you'll be escorted out!' In a tight budget, amazing how fast funds can be found to reduce single points of failure! In a message dated 12/8/2013 2:05:56 P.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Amdahl was the main architect of the S/360. So I guess we can mention him on occasion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
