Shirey
Ben E. Keith Co.
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If you want to consider this a club, then no one admits you.
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Behalf Of Mark Pace
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I never thought of that. But it was my case. I started as a
programmer.
Refused to use COBOL when Assembler would do the job and was asked if I
Many of us skipped the applications sidetrack and just went straight from Ops
to Sysprog.
William Janulin william.janu...@aspg.com 4/14/2010 8:43 AM
I think a good many of us went down similar paths, starting out in
operations, moving into applications programming, and eventually getting
into
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
scott.r...@joann.com (Scott Rowe) writes:
Many of us skipped the applications sidetrack and just went straight
from Ops to Sysprog.
I took a intro to fortran
In 45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b903534...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local, on
04/12/2010
at 09:47 AM, Thompson, Steve steve_thomp...@stercomm.com said:
Are you referring to just IBM type mainframes, or do you wish to include
UNISYS, and Honeywell (the ones that I remember and think are still
Our Windows and Network Brethren are still in the Chaos stage. But have
to admit, Windows is finally getting some order (so they say); like
being upward compatible.
LOL
IMO, Windows has never heard of upward compatability. I have the scars
from my home PC to prove it.
JAVA seems to have taken
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Just curious how many mainframes are in the world. And also how many
do you want to know how many are still under IBM
service, or are running naked?
i have not run naked since 1974 - wow - was i on a streak back then .
Chris Hoelscher
IDMS/DB2 Database Architect
Humana Inc
502-476-2538
choelsc...@humana.com
you only need to test the programs that you want
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbm1.comwrote:
IMO, Windows has never heard of upward compatability. I have the scars
from my home PC to prove it.
Indeed. I've seen keyboard shortcuts changed by service packs -- talk about
random!
to the club when someone in his class would admit that they'd
just begun as a systems programmer.
Greg Shirey
Ben E. Keith Co.
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If you want to consider this a club, then no one admits you.
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On 12 Apr 2010 05:57:51 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Our Windows and Network Brethren are still in the Chaos stage. But have
to admit, Windows is finally getting some order (so they say); like
being upward compatible.
LOL
IMO, Windows has never heard of upward compatability. I
In a message dated 4/12/2010 12:31:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca writes:
have reinstalled with little or no problem. Quicken 2006 won't print
reports because of a missing PDF driver but otherwise is OK. Upward
compatibility seems decent.
Only had to format
On 12 Apr 2010 07:40:55 -0700, wgshi...@benekeith.com (Greg Shirey)
wrote:
An instructor from Verhoef made the observation in a class I attended
that he had never met a mainframe systems programmer whose first job
was as a systems programmer, and his students invariably would say that
they were
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On 12 Apr 2010 07:40:55 -0700, wgshi...@benekeith.com (Greg
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On 12 Apr 2010 07:40:55 -0700, wgshi...@benekeith.com (Greg Shirey)
wrote:
An instructor from Verhoef made the observation in a class I attended
that he had never
I just wanted to know how exclusive a club am I in. Then of course I have
to decide if I want to belong to a club that would have me a member. Hoping
it doesn't get to that.
Never looked at IBM Mainframes as a club. Long ago the kind of people who
were attracted to Mainframes were ones
Just curious how many mainframes are in the world. And also how many mainframe
people (sysprogs, developers, etc).
I just wanted to know how exclusive a club am I in. Then of course I have to
decide if I want to belong to a club that would have me a member. Hoping it
doesn't get
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com
wrote:
Just curious how many mainframes are in the world. And also how many
mainframe people (sysprogs, developers, etc).
Of course, IBM holds this closely. Best guess is on the order of 10,000 --
that is, it's
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Just curious how many mainframes are in the world. And also how many
mainframe people (sysprogs, developers, etc).
I just wanted to know how exclusive a club am I
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Having grown up in farm country, I can tell you that domestic turkeys
are the absolute stupidest creatures on God's green Earth! You wouldn't
believe it unless you saw it!
The wild turkey is
It has been awhile since someone has referenced the Mainframe site:
http://mainframe.typepad.com/
Timothy Sipples has placed a nice post out there called How Many
Mainframes Do You Need?
It is worth the read, even for us old, crusty types who sometime forget
we didn't always know
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A: One if it's long enough.
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Rocket Software
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Then there is the server world concept: How many chickens does it take
to
run your business.
Turkeys might have more impact :-)
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The more the better ...
Unfortunately a shrinking pond is ultimately going to do none of us any
good.
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Turkeys might have more impact :-)
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Bob Richards writes:
It has been awhile since someone has referenced the
Mainframe site:
http://mainframe.typepad.com/
Timothy Sipples has placed a nice post out there called
How Many Mainframes Do You Need?
It is worth the read, even for us old, crusty types who
sometime forget we didn't always
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