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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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- Subject: Re: MVS on Workstations? (Was "economics of os2 for ibm")
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- Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:22:46 GMT
- References: <19930120.071732.246@almaden.ibm.com> <8492@lib.tmc.edu> <Gary.Woodman.933.727589153@anu.edu.au>
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- In article <Gary.Woodman.933.727589153@anu.edu.au> Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
- >Hmmm, Jay, CICS/2 and COBOL/2 have been available for a couple of years
- >now... but I take your point.
-
- Just how good are CICS/2 and COBOL/2 as development platforms for the
- mainframe versions? Can a program developed for those two be run on the
- mainframe with little more than a recompilation? (I'm probably going to get to
- find out firsthand, if my promised PC upgrade ever happens...)
-
- >I'd use one - if I had a sysprog-type job
- >again. Somehow I don't think that's very likely, I get the feeling that MVS
- >sysprogs are starting to follow the COBOL programmers down the path to
- >oblivion...
-
- I'd use one too, but I suspect that justifying the reputed $5K cost of the
- thing would be difficult. It'd be neat, though, as it lowers the cost of the
- minimum MVS system, as right now it's a high-end rackmount ES/9000.
-
- I hope you're wrong about the path to oblivion, but my knowledge of the MVS
- sysprog market in Houston gives me little optimism...
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "I don't want to read poor Microsoft bashing. I want to read good
- Microsoft bashing." -- Douglas A. Bell, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Me too!)
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