My own experience is that teenagers, preternaturally bright ones admittedly, can learn to cope with what I shall limit myself to calling the patina of antiquity. (The phrase "encrusted patina of antiquity" is euphonious; but encrustations obscure, very shortly indeed destroy patinæ.)
What I miss in these discussions, or would miss if they were serious, is any consideration of the strengths of z/OS. For example, no Linux or Unix that I am familiar with does record i/o at all well; and even their stream i/o, which they certainly do better, is much inferior to the asynchronous stream i/o of z/OS PL/I. Or again, z/OS is decimal orders of magnitude more reliable, available, and secure than either Linux or Unix. I do of course agree that z/OS is perceived to be boring, but that is another question. ---jg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
