Yeah, I may be wrong but I got the feeling the writer of that article didn't really know mainframes. He probably had some old hazy opinions about mainframes, and he researched this article by talking to two or three Java programmers who'd been around z/OS a while back, and he combined the two sources and wrote what we saw before going back to his Real Job.
Maybe I'm doing him an injustice. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* There are two rules for ultimate success in life: 1) Never tell everything you know. -Randy Keck */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:58 Really? 40-year-old mainframes? That's close to impossible, and certainly ridiculous. I'm sure many of you remember better than me, but 1980 was the era of needing a megawatt or so to generate 20 MIPS or something like that. If you could find the parts and the expertise to keep it going. --- On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 11:44 AM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the original article (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-jersey-cobol- > coders-mainframes-coronavirus) it said “The governor of New Jersey made a > seemingly odd call for help last night: The state desperately needs COBOL > programmers to revamp the 50-year-old software powering the 40-year-old > mainframes behind the state's unemployment system”.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
