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- From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
- Subject: Re: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE IBM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.134855.28580@geovision.gvc.com>
- Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
- Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
- References: <16NOV92.12250000.0072@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <BxtpIv.AMD@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <STEVEV.92Nov17104240@miser.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:48:55 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
-
- >I suspect that the questions apply to IBM's most famous series of
- >machines, the 360/370 series. If you thought them placing
- >increasingly souped-up versions of the 8088 in IBM PCs was bad,
- >note that the 360/370 series has been using the same instruction
- >set and processor architecture for nearly _30 years_. IBM's
- >top-end mainframes (like the 3090) still run IBM 360 programs in
- >binary form.
-
- From this I infer that you consider it a ``bad thing'' that an IBM mainframe
- (or PC) user can upgrade his hardware without buying new versions of commercial
- software?
-
- How is this bad? Because it means you don't get the latest and greatest
- (mis)features by upgrading your software at the same time? Because you can
- upgrade things incrementally? Because software that works and does everything
- you need it to do will continue to work, only faster?
-
- Disclaimer: I have not used an IBM mainframe in 7 years, and I no longer use
- my PC - my ex-wife uses it for Word Perfect, and I use a VT220 and a modem
- for home computing.
-
- --
- Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com
- (This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
- "No matter what you've lost - be it a home, a love, a friend - like the 'Mary
- Ellen Carter' rise again." - Stan Rogers - "Mary Ellen Carter"
-