On Monday, 02/03/2003 at 09:30 CST, "Nix, Robert P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because the quality of the other operating systems doesn't allow them to have > the higher standard.
I think that's an unfair over-generalization. Lots of Unix and Linux systems have high uptimes. I do think that the interface design between the machine, the operating system, and the application is cleaner on mainframes, as are the hardware (esp. adapter) state changes. I think that all of that, taken together, yields a system which tolerates hardware and software idiosyncrasies better. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
