Ot: Death of the mainframe

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011, Richard Kreiss wrote:

>It appears that the pendant's who predicted the "Death of the mainframe"
>were very wrong.

>In today's NY time business sales of IBM's new mainframes were up.

>I know most of us do not deal with companies which need a mainframe but it
>is nice to know that these workhorses are still around although in a much
>different format then the older generation.

There are probably a large percentage of programs running on
these written in COBOL.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were
still some written in Autocoder emulation.

I wonder if they still require huge quantities of JCL.

BTW, I admit to anti-IBM bias as a long time Burroughs user :-).

Bill
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