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Very nice summation actually. The three OSes do things differently because they all came to the same problems from different paths. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah... > > From: bdietz@3x.com > > > > Actually winders NT and up (200 and XP) have a scheduler built in. > > Cool! I'm having a little trouble finding the options that allow you to > hold, release, modify or immediately execute the batch jobs, though. Same > with the Unix stuff. Probably because they don't exist. > > Most of the schedulers for the PC-based OS's are pretty limited in their > capabilities, but that's simply a reflection of the evolution of the OS. > While OS/400 has been from its very inception all about handling business > applications, the PC OS's are primarily single user systems or multi-user > text processors. > > Unix is closer to being able to handle business applications than Windows > because at least Unix was built for multi-user processing. Windows was a > single-user multi-tasker, which "evolved" into a multi-user OS. > > In both cases, though, scheduling is seen as more of a "system > administration" function than an operations function. In fact, the concept > of a system operator is sort of foreign to most Unix/NT shops. Rather than > having a subset of daily business operations that can be easily run by an > operator with minimal training, you instead have a bunch of technical > commands (cron, at, ...) that require somebody with some relatively in-depth > knowledge to use. > > It's this philosophical divergence that really differentiates the IBM > midrange from the more technical OS's. And if don't agree with that most > simple of comments, please send your responses to /dev/nul. > > >smile< > > Joe
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