Subj : IBM Developer's Toolbox
To   : David Noon
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Fri Oct 13 2000 01:29 pm

Hello David!

12 Oct 00 20:57, David Noon wrote to Tobias Ernst:

TE>> Or take the AS/400
DN> I'd rather not.
:-)

DN> You could try getting a job in the real world. ... :-)
DN> We offer long hours, low pay compared to your manager, and potential
DN> redundancy when fashions change in technology.
David ! All those years ! We work for the same company and I didn't notice !

DN> Anyhow, the discussion of mainframes is largely off-topic, unless you
DN> want to discuss programming the OS/2 box that controls the hardware
DN> configuration.
yes, but many of us work not only with OS/2, but also unices and even
mainframes. I do some maintenance on a OS/390. I could have sworn I was the
last alive on earth to do so. The machine should have been decommissioned
several years ago, but it just keeps on going. This contract ends on 31st dec.
this year. I'm not dying to have it renewed yet again. After debugging JCLs on
the amdahl, even "ed" looks user-friendly :-)

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