"Paul Gilmartin" <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote in message news:<2410839884184451.wa.paulgboulderaim....@bama.ua.edu>... > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:59:13 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: > > > >Me too, never even thought of megabytes until the pc slam dunk artists came along, everyone I knew calculated their file size in tracks or cyls. As someone tod me new world order....lol > > > I would have expected that during technology transitions with a > mixture of DASD geometries in a shop, bytes or records would > have been the invariant metric of data set size, therefore the > most convenient. Perhaps it was just bigotry, evident in the > characterization in the paragraph above: "We're dinos; we don't > do megabytes!" > > But then there's volume capacity which, in megabytes, is not > invariant, even for a single volume of a single given model. > > -- gil
No, it is just the 'change' that prevented adoption. In spite of all the pro's, it has one con: it is different from what we are used to. And that is usually a big trhreshold. I have seen this several times in the past: once we had a simple homewritten change management system. Then we changed to Netman and everybody complained about all its shortcommings and difficulties. Then we changed to Paragrine and everybody complained about it and said how much better Netman was. We are/were used to trks and cyls and everything different is worse until proven otherwise. Kees. ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
