Re: Interesting slashdot thread about why companies don't upgrade
True Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 11, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: z/OS is not that different. Can you run it on an older IBM machine? Say, a 9672. Does it support 3350's? 3330's? - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -Original Message- From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 09:37:19 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Interesting slashdot thread about why companies don't upgrade Phil and Mike, Yep..but which of the PC vendors , for example, write for older machines? Most of the products require a bigger footprint, either in memory or HDD space. Z/os a different story as far as I am concerned Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 10, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Yep. We have some hardware devices that require DOS or Win 3.1. No drivers for a later version available. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Some of it applies to z, too: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/002258/ask-slashdot-why-wont-companies-upgrade-old-software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Interesting slashdot thread about why companies don't upgrade
Phil and Mike, Yep..but which of the PC vendors , for example, write for older machines? Most of the products require a bigger footprint, either in memory or HDD space. Z/os a different story as far as I am concerned Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 10, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Yep. We have some hardware devices that require DOS or Win 3.1. No drivers for a later version available. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Some of it applies to z, too: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/002258/ask-slashdot-why-wont-companies-upgrade-old-software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Interesting slashdot thread about why companies don't upgrade
Some of it applies to z, too: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/002258/ask-slashdot-why-wont-companies-upgrade-old-software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Interesting slashdot thread about why companies don't upgrade
Yep. We have some hardware devices that require DOS or Win 3.1. No drivers for a later version available. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Some of it applies to z, too: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/002258/ask-slashdot-why-wont-companies-upgrade-old-software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
