Bad Classic Operating Systems (was: Micro$oft Biz'droid Luser s)

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Mon Apr 22 12:30:57 2002

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Hans Franke wrote:

> > I count myself among the Microsoft-haters. I think I qualify as a system
> > programmer, considering I can bootstrap an S/390 from the console machine
> > from memory in binary (or almost, it's been a few months) and bring it up
> > to a level where I can run channel programs.
>
> Still not very far, but who cares, one could write usfull multi user
> apps at that level in just a few K's

But, it's still a lost art. Most mainframe system programmers can't do it
anymore.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 12:30:57 BST