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- From: azog@spatula.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE IBM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.230823.9763@spatula.rent.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:08:23 GMT
- References: <BxtpIv.AMD@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <STEVEV.92Nov17104240@miser.uoregon.edu> <1992Nov18.134855.28580@geovision.gvc.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.134855.28580@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:
- [ stuff about IBM S/370 ]
- >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?
- >
-
- You can apply the same arguement to the whole world, and where would we
- be? With 100MHz Intel 80586s, 64mb of RAM, all running MS-DOS 3.3.
-
- Do you really belive your statement? Your talking about an instruction set
- that really hasent changed in over 25 years or more. This is progress?
- If you really belive this, you would get along good with the systems
- guy at our shop. Wont use 3480 tape cartridges. Why? He cant see them
- move, so how does he know its working!
-
- And then whats the point in making this wonderful hardware, if you dont
- use it to its full potential? We have an ES/9000 (9121-190), that runs
- VSE/ESA. It runs Power. It runs CICS. CICS is a batch job that sits in a
- VSE/Power partition. Batch partitions? Interactive computing is not
- instrict to IBM mainframes. Else why would CICS be a layered product and
- not a base installation option?
-
- The 9121 above has four ESCON channels (IBMs name for fiber optic disk
- channels), which is pretty impressive. But in 1991, just last year, we
- finally got rid of our card punch/reader.
-
- My point is why have progress at all, if you dont take advantage of it?
-
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- Billy D'Augustine azog@spatula.rent.com
-
- No lord shall stand before myself.
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