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- Subject: Re: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 20:20:50 GMT
- Organization: The Wollongong Group
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- References: <4itd85$28s0@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <Doo5o5.CB4@presby.edu>
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- In article <Doo5o5.CB4@presby.edu>, jtbell@presby.edu (Jon Bell) writes:
- > <tnagy@ibm.net> wrote:
- >>Quite a few people here gave you good advices, but nobody seems to
- >>answer your question. Being a SYSTEMS Programmer is quite different
- >>from being a Programmer. While a programmer builds applications, the
- >>system programmer's job is to fine tune and maintain the computer system,
- >>so that the programmers and users can work on it as smoothly as possible.
- >>
- >>Some of the responsibilities (just to give you an idea):
- >>
- >>- install and maintain software packages
- >>- advise management of hardware/software requirements
- >>- monitor and improve access to system resources
- >>- setup new users (access rights, password, etc.)
- >>- solve system access problems
-
- Perhaps terminology varies from place to place or in different industries,
- but what you describe is what I've always found refered to as the SYSTEM
- MANAGER. This is with VMS and Cray systems in scientific and engineering
- installations, as well as with software development organizations. The
- scientific and engineering places include both government (Navy, Air Force,
- NASA and NIH) and civilian.
-
- A SYSTEM PROGRAMER does the same sort of things as an applications
- programer, but closer to the hardware (i.e device drivers, operating system
- alterations, new system services, etc.).
-
- These beliefs are backed up by looking at the content of Digital Equipment's
- courses. The System Programing course has to do with system services, ASTs,
- access to kernal memory, etc. while the System Management course has to do
- with insalling software, backing up disks, mounting tapes, tuning for
- performance and allocating resources (accounts, disk quotas, privileges,
- protections, etc.).
-
- Perhaps the terminology is different in IBM shops, or in other countries,
- but this is what I've found in Digital shops all over the U.S.
-
- >Those are a system *administrator's* responsibilities. A systems
-
- Yeah, that's the typical unix-world terminology. Unix keeps the same
- distinctions in function as VMS, but the system manager with VMS is a system
- administrator in the unix context. For PClone BBSs the term is "Sysop"
- (system operator). Different cultures, different terms.
-
- -- Mike "system managers aren't usually 'management' though" Bartman --
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