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

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon Apr 22 12:39:40 2002

> > > 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.

There's no dark secret at a CCW. Any to be honest, I wouldn't write
such a 'the computer is mine' application anymore. Waste of time
and hardware.

Gruss
H.

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