Re: Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron

2006-07-09 Thread Howard Rifkind
Heck. The last real job I had where the systems programmers weren't treated like dirt was in a 3090-6J shop. The employees in the mainframe area weren't exactly treated like Gods but were well respected. BTW that 3090 beat any MP box you could mention. I was the manager of a sh

Whoever you are, you have my sympathy

2006-07-09 Thread Phil Payne
A combination of site logs and Google's Urchin Analytics tells me that someone using a Mid-West ISP downloaded one of my MIPS pages three times between 02:30 and 04:00 local time this morning. You have my sympathy, whoever you are. I had a boss like that once. Don't forget the disclaimer. --

EREP and bugs was Re: Dump Reading (was Re: LSQA shortage)

2006-07-09 Thread Clark Morris
On 6 Jul 2006 20:00:18 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Jul 6, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: >--SNIP >> >> Naturally I expected a medal from IBM... :-) Instead an APAR fix >> was issued >> without comment or acknowledgement. Such is life