-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wade Curry wrote: > When I tell my mainframer co-workers about this kind of stuff, the > usual response is, "Oh. They finally thought of that, eh? MVS was > doing this (some large number of) years ago."
Yeah, yeah. The rant of the curmudgeon. I am quite familiar with it. :) Were they doing it for $300 a box and giving you the source? I don't think so. And that is a very different thing which make FOSS "innovative". > above Unix. I just think that it's too bad that the two user > communities are so separated from each other. Linux would > certainly benefit from having some of the capabilities that the > mainframe world takes for granted. Yes, it certainly would. Unfortunately the mainframe world has never been all that good about cooperating or sharing knowledge. The Unix world is having to reinvent the wheel and the Free software world is having to invent it again. In spite of all of this, progress is being made and we can now have virtualization on our $300 PC's. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC0eq89PIYKZYVAq0RApVvAJ96PQ0rxDLcLG5JU62BospE+SWTXQCfQ8Co U2G4ZDn1URMRMe65uJAdfqI= =JnuM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
