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  Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones         


Author: jsavard
Date: Dec 9, 2006 09:19

McKown, John wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, of what use would an inexpensive "desktop" z/OS
> be for the average person? If you want reliability, then use a Linux
> distro. Now, if it could be used for program development, ...?

I'm not sure that a version of z/OS would be of use to the average
person.

When it comes to companies running servers, z/Architecture has some
advantages over running either Windows Server 2003 or Linux. Greater
security and reliability.

If those advantages stop being big enough to support a large price
differential for hardware, then it would make sense for IBM to reach
downwards in some way. Whether by using their own emulation technology
- or trying to hit the mass market with z/Architecture-compatible
chips.

Three choices. Windows on the x86. MacOS on the x86. OS/2 on
z/Architecture.
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  Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones         


Author: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Date: Dec 9, 2006 07:51

lefuller@SBCGLOBAL.NET (Lloyd Fuller) writes:
> Ahh. But UDB DB2 for Windows does not equal DB2 for z/OS (or z/VM
> either). They are different products that share some but not all of
> the same syntax. They re-act different to some commands and have
> different "flavors" of what is and is not allowed.
>
> I can not develop on UDB DB2 for Windows or Linux or what have you,
> and be sure that it will run on DB2 for z/OS.

various past posts about original relational/sql implementation and
technology transfer from sjr to endicott for sql/ds
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr

most recent comment in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#11

one of the people in this meeting claimed to have handled the
technology transfer from endicott back to stl for DB2 (i.e. sort of
long way around since SJR and STL were only about 10 miles apart, i
use to ride it on my bike).
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#15
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  Re: Year-end computer bug could ground Shuttle         


Author: jmfbahciv
Date: Dec 9, 2006 07:06

In article 4ax.com>,
Frank McCoy millcomm.com> wrote:
>In alt.folklore.computers "Micheal H. McCabe" alltel.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Afterwards, they also pickup the old ties and sell them to
>>landscapers. A friend once built a garage by notching and stacking old RR
>>ties just like Lincoln Logs. Much later he discovered that the old ties were
>>treated with creosote, which burns rather quickly and efficiently...
>
>At our house, they used old ties to form frames around the driveway, and
>to act as a retaining-wall for the back stairs up from the basement. It
>took a long time, but most of the retaining-wall ties rotted enough so
>that I had to take them out and put in concrete blocks designed for that
>purpose. At the same time I put...
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  Re: Year-end computer bug could ground Shuttle         


Author: jmfbahciv
Date: Dec 9, 2006 07:00

In article news.individual.net>,
krw att.bizzzz> wrote:
>In article s848.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
>jmfbahciv@aol.com says...
>> In article ,
>> Roland Hutchinson verizon.net> wrote:
>>>jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>[apropos the autoharp]
>>>
>>>> But you don't put that one on your lap. YOu hold it cradled
>>>> in your arm and then strum...right?
>>>
>>>That's been a common way of playing it for quite some time, but the
>>>instrument was originally designed to be played flat on a table or in the
>>>lap, like other sorts of zither. We played it that way in my elementary
>>>school. The big controversy was whether to strum to the right or to the
>>>left of the chord bars, i.e., near the end or near the middle of the
longer
>>>strings. ...
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