16 Dec
2007
16 Dec
'07
7:31 a.m.
On Dec 15, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Yeah, there are a lot of clueless people out there who have
absolutely no idea of what the real data processing world looks like.
Many people honestly believe that their bank transactions, for example,
are actually processed by Pentiums running Windows.
I have no problem with people being clueless about a certain thing or
field...but cluelessness accompanied by assumption, often further
accompanied by assertion, is infuriating.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Brief
notification, but I just heard a blurb announcing as per the
subject
line, for those who happen to be near the radio in the next hour and
can tune
in the CBC (after the news at 4).
(It's on the show "SPARK", if one wishes to try to hear a repeat.)
It is about the mainframe computer, but that's all I got ... can't
testify
further as to the content.
*Requiem* for the mainframe? Bleh!!
My living depends on mainframe manufacturing! As does the living of
many of the people in this city!