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