Jim said: > Its like the old "TSO is slow" myth vs CMS. In the few > years of the of the s/360, TSO was slow and a lot of > products tried to replace it (ROSCOE, etc). Once TSO > got improved, the myth persisted.
In a shop with heavy use of both VM (CMS) and MVS one could gather evidence from objective comparison ... but not all of us live in such a shop. Shucks. So again, the myth persists, as do reports countering it. I'll tell ya an amazing myth: that the mainframe cannot sustain a high interrupt rate. I am still annoyed at the byte-at-a-time nature of interactive Unix, but I had to confess a decade ago, when exposed to AIX/370, that it doesn't kill your system. Ahh... the Cornell days. -- R;
