Any Pr1me fans out there?

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Tue Sep 8 20:47:38 1998

>
> > Ahhh. I guess it shows that I've done very very little with mainframes and
> > learned everything I know on Micros and Mini's. I stand corrected. :)
>
> I hope my message did not come across as a flame, but there are a lot of
> misconceptions about mainframes (the biggest is that they are dead!). They
> are different beasts, certainly. Almost everything about them is in some
> way different than the rest of the computing world (micros, minis) - from
> benchmarks and architecture to fabrication and networking (compare SNA to
> TCP/IP and you will see black and white).
>
> William Donzelli
> william_at_ans.net
>
>

Well, as an old DEC guy who later worked for IBM... I agree, although
with Posix Compliant mainframe software that meets the Unix spec
and runs the Apache webserver... mainframes aren't mainframes anymore.

(at least not the IBM 390 class ones which look like a cross between
a mainframe and a Unix server)

I do feel some of the flavor of the mini's is missed by the current
Unix de jour environment today. VAX/VMS is not Unix or HP's MPE or
Concurrent's OS/32 (which feels very IBM Mainframe -- with block mode
terminals and VTAM/ITAM type access).

I miss RSTS/E, RSX11(M,M+), IAS, RT11 on DEC stuff and the other
neat OS's for DEC -- MUMPS, PICK etc...

Bill


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