On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:59:29AM -0700, Shawn Tayler wrote:
>Absofrellinglutely.... That is the pattern
That's been the pattern since the IBM 360 mainframes that required an army
of systems programmers to keep them running (and another army to figure out
the JCL). We were running Burroughs systems with MCP that required minimal
support people, and were very efficient in terms of the hardware
requirements.
There's lots of job security in these arcane, inefficient, and buggy
systems. Just look at the industry that's grown up to apply bandaids to
DOS/Windows faults (Norton, McAfee, etc.).
Bill
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