On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:29:00 +1100, Matthew Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> This month marks the end of an era in NASA computing. Marshall Space >> Flight Center powered down NASAs last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe. For >> my millennial readers, I suppose that I should define what a mainframe is. >> Well, thats easier said than done, but here goes -- Its a big >> computer that is known for being reliable, highly available, secure, and >> powerful. They are best suited for applications that are more >> transaction oriented and require a lot of input/output that is, writing >> or reading from data storage devices. > > >Read the full >article<http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/NASA-CIO-Blog/posts/post_1329017818806.html>[ >blogs.nasa.gov] > Is this related at all to United Space Alliance and their mainframe usage? One of my favorite SHARE sessions was in San Diego 2007 when Jan Green presented "Space Shuttle Usage of z/OS". I know the space shuttle program is gone too now. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
