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- From: tbruseha@hollywood.ems.cdc.com (Tom Brusehaver)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE IBM
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:55:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.230823.9763@spatula.rent.com> azog@spatula.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine) writes:
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- [stuff about intel junk deleted (read EE times about Intel patent war)]
- >
- >And then whats the point in making this wonderful hardware, if you dont
- ...
- >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.
- >
- Did you really get rid of it, or did you just replace the physical
- unit (card reader/punch) with something else? Arent most devices
- attatched to a 360 class mainframe (or sorry 390) through SNA still
- considered card readers and punchers (I haven't actually messed with
- VSE, only MVS)?
-
- I worked at a place with another mainframe attatched to an IBM
- mainframe (the other one ran Unix). There were 3 punch, 3 reader
- devices and 1 printer device on the IBM side; 2 async devices (and 2
- tons of software) on the Unix side.
-
- >My point is why have progress at all, if you dont take advantage of it?
- >
- Progress?? 30 years of the same architecture? sorry. :-(
-