[ale] OT: How different is z/OS from Linux/Unix?

[Charles Shapiro]

Ha!  When I started programming, we had to use ONLY ONES 'cause ZEROS
WEREN'T INVENTED YET!!!!

-- CHS

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 21:16 -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
>>
>> I used to know some guys who could look at the 1 and 0's that were
>> saved at each clock cycle in the cpus and tell you what operation the
>> computer was doing and if it was working.  Still blows my mind.
>
> It is called necessity.
>
> Think about us that started with Linux near the beginning.   There were
> no GUI configuration programs.  There was no Ubuntu to make most of the
> hardware just work.  We used vi to configure X.  We compiled a kernel
> specific to our computer.  Out of necessity we became masters of the OS
> and today, now that Linux is basically a walk in the park, it was a huge
> benefit to us.  When the "easy to use" disiti fails to be plug-n-play we
> can usually work around it.
>
>
>
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