Re: Tipton's COMMON opening speech / NY Times article

[Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxx>]

I recheck the article -- they were showcasing OS by IBM:

S360, S3, DOS, AIX, Linux

See anything missing here?

J

PS:  I actually worked on a S3.  

When my pgm got stuck the first time, I was instructed on how to operate
the weird "console" so I could cancel my "partition".

When my pgm got stuck the second time, I canceled the partition but it was
the wrong one (a six hour allocation job -- apparel).  After lots of 3370
platter swapping and some expletives and admonishmonts all was ok.

When my pgm got stuck the third time (I was a junior pgmr), I canceled the
partition but it was the wrong one again.  After lots of 3370 platter
swapping, more expletives and admonishmonts I was given my walking papers.

I was just too dangerous in that room.

At 03:24 PM 3/20/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Jerome Draper wrote:
>
>> Case in point is the front page of the biz section of the NY Times today
>> which shows a graph of the "history of IBM".  Just like Tipton sez, there's
>> no mention of AS/400 although the vaunted S3 got a mention.  It's all
>> mainframe, PC, and Unix (AIX and Linux).
>
>At first, seeing 'vaunted' as an adjective for the S3 gave me a
>chuckle.  Then it dawned on me that at the time, the S3 was really
>something special.
>
>-- 
>-Jeff


Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, UDS, Nlynx, Perle, Lucent, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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