On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:52:35 -0600, Steve Guthrie wrote: >I'm sorry, but comparing an operating system as durable, scalable and >reliable as MVS to an antenna stapled to a tree - yeesh! When you buy a >mainframe system, you buy security. The software and its relationship with >the hardware is what provides this security. Are you seriously suggesting >that an off-the-shelf Intel box is comparable, on any level?
I don't think he was. Honestly. But, you buy the mainframe box, and you get IBM reliability. Buy my software and you get my reliability. They're not implicitly connected :-) >As far as writing GNU software for anything, write it for Linux in such as >way as to make it portable. The rest takes care of itself. Applause! Applause! /Per regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
