FWIW, Turbo Pascal 7 blew the doors off Turbo C 2.1; fast & efficient,
at least on my HP200LX - Fun times... "8) ... On 10/2/20, Bert Put <b...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Hi Joshua, > > On 10/2/20 4:02 PM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote: >> On Oct 2, 2020, at 1:46 PM, Bert Put <b...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >>> Yep, I did COBOL too, busted away from it for a few years, and then a >>> year ago went back to it. Fun. How about some mainframe assembler? >> >> One of the things I want to spend my dwindling supply of round tuits on is >> picking up some big iron skills. I even got as far as spinning up the >> tk4- Hercules distribution so I can have a local MVS environment on an >> emulated 3033. I have no idea where to even begin learning, though. My >> entire life, including my career and several of my hobbies have been based >> around micros! >> >> > This is not a subject that we should probably have on the list, since > it's not Tandy slab related, but I can tell you it's not just COBOL. > You have to know how to build, submit and run jobs, and monitor them as > you go. Also, Jay Moseley's MVS distro is good, but is not exactly the > same as the "real" big iron, because of copyright issues. So you'll get > a good flavor of it but it still won't be the "real deal". You won't > get to play with VSAM, IMS, or DB2 at all on Hercules, and those skills > are important. Email me directly if you want to talk more about this > in-depth. > > Cheers, Bert >
