Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >>IBM wants z/OS to be "friendly".
>They've turned down a lot of requirements that would have made it friendlier. And audit improvement requests too. :-( >IBM wants things that will improve their cash flow, possibly at the expense of >long term profit. Indeed. Think *backward compatibility*. That would keep cash flowing in. micro$h*t learned that lesson partially when introducing windoze causing backward compatibility with dos programs. Today you can get DOSBox to run your old DOS programs. I'm using it on WinXP and Win7 to play ancient computer games. ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
