On 14Jun02:1049-0400, John Eells wrote: > Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > <snip> > >However, MVS system > >tended to require 10-30 people for care&feeding ... which scaled poorly > >to hundreds of distributed departmental computers (IPL and run with > >little or no human intervention). > > It's certainly true that running the first large MVS system required a > significant number of people (operators, production control, system > programmers, etc.). However, the second through *n*th had far lesser > incremental cost. I was a sysprog during this period and we supported 30-34 > MVS systems (depending on the year) plus several VM systems with perhaps 3 > people per MVS system overall. > > I know of at least one customer who ran a one-person system programming shop > at the time, too.
Well, I, for one, do not miss dealing with head crashes on system packs. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
