In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/21/2006
at 06:32 AM, Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It was interesting to compare the boxes in different companies'
mainframes - sometimes everything was in a box, other times these I/O
functions were in another box.
Just like IBM. Quite a few IBM mainframes
time to open one's eyes if the eyesight was ruined by
either IBM or mainframe.
From: FRASER, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: What's a mainframe?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:34:01 +1000
an obsolete device
: Re: What's a mainframe?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:34:01 +1000
an obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies
serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits
for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice as fast as
last year's
There used to be a rule:
a) If you push it and it doesn't move, it's a mainframe.
b) If you push it and it moves, it's midrange.
c) If you can pick it up and steal it, it's a PC.
Now:
d) If it's a major source of p/r egg-on-face for a bank and causes a Financial
Services
Authority
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Payne) writes:
There used to be a rule:
a) If you push it and it doesn't move, it's a mainframe.
b) If you push it and it moves, it's midrange.
c) If you
not there, it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] disappeared.
Nigel
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Of Phil Payne
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To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: What's a mainframe?
There used to be a rule:
a) If you push it and it doesn't
an obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies
serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits
for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice as fast as
last year's.
List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: What's a mainframe?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:34:01 +1000
an obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies
serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits
for their obsolete shareholders
Ah, Farooq, Farooq... ..bunch of stupids..
undercuts your position and enables/authorises
the quick dismissal of whatever legitimate
point(s) you may be trying to make. We are only
human, after all, and can't be expected to take
responsibility for both ends of these conversations.
(yes, I
On Saturday, 11/18/2006 at 08:21 PST, Chaye Wala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If you can fool all of the people all of the time that a mainframe
performs
better then it indeed is a mainframe.
The phrase performs better is meaningless. It performs better AT WHAT?
I don't know of anyone (IBMer or
And just what Kool-Aid have YOU been drinking?--- On Sat 11/18, Chaye Wala
lt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt; wrote:
From: Chaye Wala [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sat, 18 Nov
2006 20:21:26 -0800Subject: Re: What's a mainframe?If you can fool all of the
people all of the time
Chaye Wala wrote:
It is non standard character set representing nonstandard applications
which do not work and can not be migrated from a non standard platoform
run by bunch of stupids decieving themselves, knowingly that the same
work can be done by a much smaller hardware with losss lesscost
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