On 21 Jul 2008 11:32:07 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >--------------------------------<snip>---------------------------- >Unlikely today's programs which tend to crash quickly and often. Not >mentioning any particular OS, but you can "see through" that, can't you? >-------------------------------<unsnip>------------------------------ >Bet your sweet "bippy"........... :-)) > Given the user surly nature of some of the systems that I have seen and some of the interesting abend situations, I don't know that the mainframe platform is much better. One of the main reasons that many using departments went to non-mainframe was the perceived lack of support and cooperation from "IT". Getting problems fixed in some organizations was worse than dealing with Microsoft. Having used PROFs and the CICS based replacement for e-mail, I find even Outlook far superior (I use Agent 4.x).
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