Subj : IBM Developer's Toolbox To : David Noon From : Tobias Ernst Date : Tue Oct 10 2000 08:56 am Hallo David! DN> + Origin: My other computer is an IBM S/390 (2:257/609.5) Speaking of legacy technology, your computer then is legacy technology too. ;-). If you want to be current, this must be an IBM z900 now. Well - the z900 is also new in the Microsoftish way: New cover, but the same (well, enhanced of course) thing underneath. I wonder what stupid guy thought up this senseless product rebranding. There was enough trouble in beating into the customers' heads what a S/390 is, and once they understood and embraced the term (e.g. gcc and Linux calls the architecture s390-ibm now), is is renamed. Brilliant! Or take the AS/400 - it's name stands for reliability in middleware issues for a broad range of customers - then why change the winning team/name? And if the name is changed, why must there again be a meaningless leter with a meaningless number? Could one not at least have thought of a meaningful name? Aaargh! You don't really have a S/390, and be it only a P/390 board, do you? I'm still looking if there is an easy way for an interested Hobbieist to get an account on such a machine via TCP/IP (with VM/CMS, MVS or VSE, in this order of preference). From time to time I do mainframe-related work for IBM (e.g. during semester holidays), but when I do not work there, I can't access the machines, so every year when I get back I have forgotten so much - I'd really like to have a way to keep my knowledge fresh also during the rest of the year. :-) Viele Gre, Tobias --- Msged/UNX TE 06 (pre) * Origin: Running FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE (2:2476/418) .