On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:03:09 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: >PL/1 and System 360 was a combined effort; OS/360, too. >The same way as the 360 architecture should make all other >platforms obsolete, PL/1 was supposed to make all other programming >languages obsolete. As we know today, the first goal was reached - >well, almost - but the second failed. > "almost"? By what metric can the x86 be discounted? Number of installed systems? Aggregate installed processing capacity (MIPS)? Aggregate installed dollar value (I don't know)? Aggregate installed data storage? Other (specify)?
Did you compose your message to this list on a z, or on an "obsolete" "other platform"? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
