Hello Paul!



13 Nov 93 15:02, Paul Edwards wrote to Anthony May:





 PE> There are a lot of people cut out to do some sort of programming.  As a

 PE> programmer I can look around and see all the total dickheads who have jobs

 PE> as programmers.  You may well not know what a computer operator is.  On

 PE> MVS sites (at least) there may be 50,000 tapes for the site, and 20

 PE> tape drives.  Whenever someone needs to run a job that reads from one file

 PE> to another file, the tape needs to be mounted.  That is the operators job.

 PE> Same as changing printer paper when it runs out every 15 minutes or

 PE> whatever.



The printer was mostly operated by a printer operator at IBM.

The tapes were mostly changed by a tape operator at IBM.







Regards, Alan



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