> On Nov 29, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > > On 11/29/2017 2:56 PM, Edward Gould wrote: >>> IBM is going to produce the first marketable Quantum Computer. >> And who is going to buy it? The people interesting in WATSON … maybe. There >> is blood in the water. > > Famously, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. said around 1950 "Nobody's going to buy > computers. The whole world will need about four of them.”
Yes and I have heard the story about gates and more than 64K. I suspect that as long as MVS or Z/OS is around it will be hard to get around the bottle necks that are built in to the OS. Hell look at TSO, (I won’t go there) IBM long ago lost the talent they had and it is pretty much a black hole as nobody understand the internals anymore. Watson does seem to have lifted the bottle necks and really can do multi tasking in its own way. IBM did a poor job in documenting TSO internals and we are now seeing the results as there are extremely few (if any) new products that areTSO oriented. I could be wrong on this but I think that SDSF was the last new product IBM offered that was too based. But getting back to WATSON , we don’t know too much on how it works and how easily it is to use as a programmer that is. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
