Jack J. Woehr wrote:
Tom Marchant wrote:
Evidently the Register doesn't know that mainframes*are* modern.
The machines are. Their workforce isn't. It might be if there were affordable access to modern mainframe operating
systems for the masses of young programmers.
But I've only been saying that for 20+ years.
This got me reminiscing about how many articles I've written about mainframes.
http://www.drdobbs.com/sitesearch?sort=publishDate+desc&queryText=woehr+mainframes&type=site
Here's one from 7 years ago aimed at the workforce that might have arrived at z
but won't for lack of exposure.
http://www.drdobbs.com/database/mainframe-programming-vs-woonix-programm/228701556
And a cool interview with Alan Altmark that I hadn't re-read in years, again, aimed at the open source community trying
to explain why mainframes are fun.
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/share-alan-altmark-mr-zvm/228701406
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Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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