6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
9:40 p.m.
On 6-apr-2013 21:54, Dave McGuire wrote:
Ok Sparky, whatever you say.
A bit of a (stereo-)typical response of an IBM advocate/apologist.
Don't kill the messenger. All that I'm doing is stating what I've
been observing. It's a plain fact that hardly anyone knows what
an IBM mainframe is. I'm sure there are even people --- like those
born in the 1990s and beyond --- who don't even know what IBM is.
It doesn't help for IBM that they're completely invisible to most
people nowadays.
I'd love to try "z" sometime (or even something older, like an
S/390), but IBM isn't exactly making that very easy for people
like myself, now are they?
VMS has the excellent "Hobbyist Program", maybe IBM should
perhaps consider something similar? Although, even that has
not saved VMS and it's in a terrible shape. But, more people
have heard of it and had a chance to use it than "z", that's
for damn sure.
- MG