I just read the article. Interestin, but, really, EBSDIC? Twice?!? On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18 Mar 2016 07:27:09 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Itschak wrote: > > >no recompile involved. Just relink to replace IBM's LE modules. > So what processor(s) is this code running on? What exactly is being > done? > > Clark Morris > > > >Itschak > > > > > > > >On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Mark Regan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> There is a ComputerWeekly article on this product at > >> > >> > http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/quocirca-insights/2016/03/the-software-defined-mainframe.html > >> . > >> I noticed that the article author needs to know how to spell the acronym > >> for EBCDIC correctly. He spells it 'EBSDIC' and did it twice. > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:04 AM Elardus Engelbrecht < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Joel C. Ewing wrote: > >> > > >> > >I notice they also claim "no need for recompilation of Cobol or PL/1 > >> > application programmes, no source code changes, or changes to > operational > >> > procedures". > >> > > >> > I am really struggling to swallow that claim... > >> > > >> > and Dave_Craig wrote: > >> > > >> > >Queue the IP lawyers, and action! > >> > > >> > This is why I said this is 'interesting development'. I am very sure > big > >> > blue and their lawyers won't like that one bit unless there is an > >> agreement. > >> > > >> > > I'll be slow to migrate off that proven decades-old > mission-critical > >> > platform, that's for sure. > >> > > >> > I will also be slow to get off the mainframes. > >> > > >> > Joel C. Ewing wrote: > >> > > >> > >Color me skeptical. > >> > > >> > With all the colors of the rainbow! ;-) > >> > > >> > Groete / Greetings > >> > Elardus Engelbrecht > >> > > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > 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 > >> > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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 > -- A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. -- Klipstein Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
