RE: Uncle Larry, wake up!!!

32MB? We'd have given our left <insert body part here> for 32MB. We had an 8MB 4341 that ran the whole school (remember those days, Al?). Try compiling a CICS program on that puppy during Registration! And then I suppose you never forgot to put in your un-callable "STOP RUN", did you?

Now, as for my beloved VMS....<snif> <sob> Even my Alpha at home is Linux now.

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen_at_wangtrading.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:09 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Uncle Larry, wake up!!!
>
>
> Nope, we would be using IMS and/or CICS & DL/I. On the beginning
> of my career, when I was a junior programmer using completely
> outdated,
> badly overused language (COBOL, for short) an ancient IBM
> 3084 with only 32M RAM
> was able to service 800+ users, as long as there weren't too
> many TSO users.
> I'd hate to explain what CICS, MVS and TSO are (or were), but
> those things were way more
> optimal and way faster then any other database I've ever
> seen, and that was
> happenening in the year 1986. At the end of 1986, I was
> reassigned to check out that
> wonderful new box with OS that has held so much
> promise....VAX 3900 with VMS 4.6.
> Does anybody still remember the NULL.COM and NULL process?

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