32MB? We'd have given our left <insert body part here> for 32MB. We had an 8MB 4341 that ran the whole school (remember those days, Al?). Try compiling a CICS program on that puppy during Registration! And then I suppose you never forgot to put in your un-callable "STOP RUN", did you?
Now, as for my beloved VMS....<snif> <sob> Even my Alpha at home is Linux now. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA > -----Original Message----- > From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:09 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: Uncle Larry, wake up!!! > > > Nope, we would be using IMS and/or CICS & DL/I. On the beginning > of my career, when I was a junior programmer using completely > outdated, > badly overused language (COBOL, for short) an ancient IBM > 3084 with only 32M RAM > was able to service 800+ users, as long as there weren't too > many TSO users. > I'd hate to explain what CICS, MVS and TSO are (or were), but > those things were way more > optimal and way faster then any other database I've ever > seen, and that was > happenening in the year 1986. At the end of 1986, I was > reassigned to check out that > wonderful new box with OS that has held so much > promise....VAX 3900 with VMS 4.6. > Does anybody still remember the NULL.COM and NULL process? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
