On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 04:36:01 +0000, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >Of course we could avoid all of these problems if we were to bring back >the mainframe or mini and the dumb terminal. > >Take cover, incoming :) No kidding. Installing only the software you coded (or from source) may be a little too much for today's complex software. But life was good! I started my carrer next to an IBM ES900. Not coding, mind you. Doing nightly backups, from 8:00 pm to 4:30 am. That's how we started our programming careers back in the 80s; through pain and suffering. Next to me was also an old VAX with its insane batch programming language and the company (Alcatel) had just bought two brand new AS/400 which were the first two come up with a sort of graphical interface API not unlike curses. Of the three systems, only the AS/400 allowed for the installation of pr-compiled binaries, if memory serves me right. During the first 6 months, nothing that wasn't IBM made ever installed... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
