On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:11 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jesse Robinson wrote > "supplying the entire OS on a chip" > > I heard a similar statement delivered by the Late Great Bob Yelevich in > the early 1990s. > He suggested that CICS would be delivered on a Board, or possibly a > component/domain would > be delivered on a board. > I remember from my first jobs, about 1979, DP (the name back then) was looking at some mini-computer for the police department (City of Ft. Worth, TX). The sales person showed us the equipment. And said that all software maintenance was done by the hardware C.E. type person. He would put a tape in the integrated drive and "press a button". That was it. Everything else was just application level programming. The closest that I know of today is the IBMi (nee AS/400) which supposedly only needs a "administrator" who supposedly doesn't need to know much more than how to read a manual. Of course, the OS being more or less "hard wired" into the hardware means that there are basically NO internals documented. > . > . > As a contractor I have experienced the neglect in Installations, when > Qualified Systems > Programmers are not employed. I was in one installation where I inherited > well over one > hundred outstanding issues, Abends, Storage Violations, back level > maintenance. > -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
