"David Debono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
[snip] That is absolutely fascinating, thank you for your time. I will consider it for my research. > Again both are still being used, but as I've not used Mainframes in > anger for a few years now but doesn't MVS/XA still support CICS as a > virtual machine "on the bus"? I personally haven't seen CICS much since about 1994, but I was standing in the Perot Systems data center when the sysops brought up the data segment after installing the first IBM TCP/IP stack for MVS/XA. Holy crap. A 4 gigaflop relational database and file server. Makes NT and Sun look like tinker toys. These little hacker geeks just don't understand.
