18 Aug
2010
18 Aug
'10
12:12 a.m.
On 8/17/10 7:59 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Compare apples to oranges - when the VAX-11 line was
out, IBM had the
4300 line. These machines were specifically designed not to require
operations staff, a big infrastructure, pure batch operation, and so
forth.
Wow, was the 4300 series really intended to not need an operations
staff? If so, they sure did miss the mark there.
I worked for a company that had a 4341, and frequently visited four
customer sites, with three 4341s and a 4381. (I worked in field service
at the time, unfortunately not for IBM) I think the smallest operations
staff for any of those intended-to-be-operations-staff-free machines was
two employees.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL