On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:06:52 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
This is one main reason why I prefer the UNIX fork() philosophy
rather than threading.
That philosophy led to the insanity that a command can't pass back an
environment variable to its caller.
Much alleviated by the mechanism
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on 03/30/2015
at 08:34 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said:
This is one main reason why I prefer the UNIX fork() philosophy
rather than threading.
That philosophy led to the insanity that a command can't pass
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
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on 03/30/2015
at 08:34 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said:
This is one main reason why I prefer the UNIX fork()
XES XCF for advances
PDSE - mixed bag .. Mostly advances.. And some .. Well ... just plain weird.
zFS over HFS - advance
Open Edition / unix system services / USS / z/unix. - Mixed bag - b2 to c2
bad, TCPIP good, ported tools/open source good, java jrio - blunder, java
jzos - advance.
Rob
On 31 March 2015 at 10:11, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote:
The fact that programmers are too lazy to use protect keys does not
make them worthless. If _I_ were writing APF code which required me
to store data in _common_ memory (ECSA for example), then I would most
definitely
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Paul Gilmartin
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:54:57 -0500, John McKown wrote:
To me, one of the biggest pluses is the hardware memory key. As now
used by z/OS, it really helps with reliability because, properly used,
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:54:57 -0500, John McKown wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Ed Finnell wrote:
Good, bad or indifferent IBM-Main is coming up on 29 yrs( in June).
Only 29? I thought OS/MVT/ASP, the focus of the drift, was quite
obsolescent 29 years ago.
Let's all thank Mark Post
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:07:02 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
To me, one of the biggest pluses is the hardware memory key. As now
used by z/OS, it really helps with reliability because, properly used,
it enforces separation of authority (ability to write) by major OS
subsystem.
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at 05:36 AM, Ed Finnell
000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu said:
Be interesting to see a survey of biggest advances, or biggest
blunders since we started.
Sometimes they're the same, e.g., Project Stretch may have been the
most
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on 03/30/2015
at 06:54 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said:
To me, one of the biggest pluses is the hardware memory key.
Better than nothing, and available before S/360 supported virtual
memory, but inferior
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Ed Finnell
000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:
Good, bad or indifferent IBM-Main is coming up on 29 yrs( in June).
Be interesting to see a survey of biggest advances, or biggest blunders
since we started.
Channeling gil: EBCDIC!
To me, one
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