Similar experience. Not sure if its the same person but I had dinner with Jeff Nick (former Felllow with Z) and his story was that they needed Posix to meet a Federal requirement. He also said that it was contentious internally and so they assembled a team and isolated them from the others so they could make fast progress.
In an update on how they were doing they were finally able to fork a process. He said it was more like foooooooooorrrrrrrrkkkkkkkk. Clearly, they fixed the performance and little did they know that it was such a critical decision for the platform that it saved z/OS. I think K8s is the USS of yesteryear. No one knows it yet but it will add another 25 years to the platform. Matt Hogstrom PGP key 0F143BC1 > On Jun 1, 2023, at 05:34, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've worked with a few ex-OE guys, including my close colleague who used to > the IBM DE running the OE project out of POK. Let me tell you, some of the > stories they have are absolutely fascinating! It's my understanding that the > POSIX certification was mainly pursued to meet the requirements set by NASA. > But here's an interesting twist: NASA doesn't run a mainframe anymore. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
