In the early days of TSO, the early 70s, a lot of companies only had 2 or 3 terminals that were shared by many. That would limit them to only 2 or 3 concurrently logged on users. Other than that, the author either misstated what was intended or could have pulled the number from someplace where the sun doesn't shine.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackerman > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Article: In Search of Mainframe Engineers > > http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/januaryfebruary08/featu > res/18963p3= > .aspx said: > > "The typical organization > might have one technician for every two or three users." > > Hunh? When was this ever true? > > Alan Ackerman > Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com >
