I started on the Tandems in 1986, and fell "in love" with them. I was an Operator then when I was in the service, and I worked on Honeywells, Tandems and a few others in the Air Mobility Command data Center.
As for the Tandems, I've been a Operator, SYSADMIN, Developer and for the past 14 years, a DBA. My experience in JCL and other IBM/VS mainframe languages, etc was limited to school, and that was in the early 1980's when I was in the service. --- In [email protected], Doug Hale <del...@...> wrote: > > My condolences on having to code in TAL and TACL. I worked for Tandem > for a little while in the Mid 80's. > I refused to use TAL. TACL was a little fun (i liked that "if > statements" cound return a value). I became a beta user of their new C > compiler. This was the > first time I used C. Before that I developed in BAL, PL/1, PASCAL/VS and > APL with EXEC/EXEC2 and REXX and a little JCL. > Those are Real Mainframe languages. > Doug > > c80840 wrote: > > I'm a BORLAND C++ person, but I'm trying to teach myself DELPHI. Answering > > this question (thanks to all that replied), not only helped me in a project > > I started in DELPHI, but also an existing C++ program. > > > > I've started a new project, trying to code it in DELPHI, and I know that at > > one point it will have to process a large DB. So, I created a large DB, > > with sample data in it, and processed through the DB like I eventually > > would have to. This is where the refreshing issue came up. > > > > Prior to this, any C++ program I had to write in BDS2006 that had to > > process DBs were relatively small (the DBs). For the ones that had larger > > DBs, they were usually only for my use, so the refreshing wasn't really an > > issue. > > > > The last project I did, was a program (in C++) that allows a person to take > > YAHOO groups and import them into a PHPBB board! After that was when I > > decided to try and learn DELPHI. Relatively speaking, the program was easy > > to write, and I wanted something to challenge me, hopefully. What better > > way is to learn another programming language. > > > > Trying to learn DELPHI with a heavy background in C++, and other languages > > (usually proprietary, mainframe languages - e.g. TAL, TACL, etc) is really > > an interesting endeavor. I'm looking forward to learning from everyone > > here! :) > > > > Thanks again and Cheers! > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "c80840" <c80840@> wrote: > > > >> I use BDS2006, and I hope someone can give me advise. My program is set > >> to having a main form, then using MODAL, I open another form where I > >> process a database. While processing through a database, if I go to say > >> for instance MS Word, and go back to my program that is still processing > >> the database, the program screen won't refresh until the program completes > >> processing the DB. > >> > >> > >> REST DELETED FOR BREVITY > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ > > To unsubscribe: delphi-en-unsubscr...@...! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2713 - Release Date: 02/27/10 > > 12:34:00 > > > > >
