The notion of “savings” was marketing nonsense. The DASD was paid for
regardless of whether it held a production database or someone’s golf handicap.
It cost the same whether it was empty or full. The notion of “saving” was
nonsense and even under the best of circumstances could only be deferred
expenses
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:01 AM -0700, "David Spiegel"
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It was also the physical size of the dataset.
On 2020-04-22 12:55, Gibney, Dave wrote:
> In the 80's a byte of DASD savings could be thousands of dollars.
>
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>> Behalf Of Phil Smith III
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 9:12 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Here we go again;
>>
>> As others have suggested, many companies do still have SSNs stored as
>> packed decimal. So sure, a namespace expansion is possible, but it's a bigger
>> change than one might think, however it's done. I've even seen at least one
>> company who stored them as binary! I sure hope someone got a big bonus
>> for saving that byte...
>>
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>> Peter Farley wrote:
>>
>>> There are also many non-human entities like corporations that use the
>> same SSN value space.
>>
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>>> There are a LOT of those . . . and they spring up and fade away at a rate
>>> far
>> higher than human births and deaths.
>>
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>> They use the same namespace--that is, if your SSN is 123-45-6789, an estate
>> or business could also have that number. Since they're uses for different
>> things, it's more that they happened (!) to choose the same format than that
>> they're "the same". (And actually they're theoretically formatted
>> differently:
>> an EIN is xx-xxxxxxx vs. the SSN xxx-xx-xxxx, not that most folks store them
>> with the hyphens.)
>>
>>
>>
>> ...phsiii
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