On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:34:18 -0600, Hobart Spitz wrote: >IMHO, the fault lies in the character stream orientation of UNIX, C, HTML >etc. The shorted-sighted design was motivated by the limited budgets and >underpowered systems of many early UNIX users. > "Underpowered" systems led to power-hungry operating systems?
> ... >Anyone who understands that global warming and climate change are >existential threats and that it may be too late to avoid catastrophic >impacts would be well advised to keep their record oriented systems and >move away from UNIX, Linux, and Windows where feasible. > You should advocate for IBM to make available an attractive, practical, personal version of z/OS. Many followers of this forum would welcome that for reasons beyond environmentalism. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
