Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Ross Cassell:

 DC>> You still don't get it.  Bob has already shpwn that old IBM code runs
 DC>> just fine on their newest systems.  there is no need to re-invent
 DC>> the wheel everytime M# comes out with a new peice of junk OS because
 DC>> M$ can't and/or won't get it right.

 RC>> No one in this echo is using in the home environ IBM mainframe

 DC> The point has flown completely over your head.  Your much happier to 
 DC> re-invent the wheel because Billy and company want you to.  

Actually I just happen to have my own personal IBM 9672 - which is an
IBM S/390 mainframe, complete with an Amdahl Spectris HD array (which
was wiped before the company released it).  It's perfectly functional and was
running right up to the moment I shut it down for good back in 2004.  While
I don't have OS/390 for it I do have Debian Linux for the S/390, and if I
had the juice (100 amp 3 phase service) and the scratch to pay for it ($3K/month)
I could configure it with 255 virtual Linux systems - literally a server farm in
a box.

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