begin quoting Wade Curry as of Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:04:54PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:55:49PM -0700: > > begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:39:37AM +0700: > > [snip] > [snip] > > > > > But the next generation of Intel and AMD will correct a > > > deficiency in the cpu design so full virtualization will be possible. At > > > > Only twenty years late. > > When I tell my mainframer co-workers about this kind of stuff, the > usual response is, "Oh. They finally thought of that, eh? MVS was > doing this (some large number of) years ago." I think that perhaps we need more history classes in CS programs.
> MVS certainly has some funky stuff going on, and a user interface > that _I_ think leaves something to be desired. On the other hand, What, you don't use Emacs?! :) > it has some things that make it very attractive to the business > management types (and techies too). Automate everything. Even one-off jobs.... 'cuz they're never run just _once_. . . > I'm not trying to tout MVS > above Unix. I just think that it's too bad that the two user > communities are so separated from each other. Yup. Cross-fertilization is a wonderful thing. > Linux would > certainly benefit from having some of the capabilities that the > mainframe world takes for granted. Documentation? -Stewart "Or - documentation that knows that 'lose' != 'loose'" Stremler
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