22 Apr
2002
22 Apr
'02
12:39 p.m.
> > 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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