Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 04:25:02 GMT
From: Steve Monahan <smonahan@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Subject: Re: TAN: Microsoft, The DoJ, and the Judiciary.  Oh my.


On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:38:16 -0400, Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
wrote:


>You could always run MVS, I hear old mainframes are cheap these days.
>Sounds like it's got all you're looking for.


Don't you go dissin' MVS, Sparky.


Most stable environment I've ever supported. Although, you
_would_ get some really weird questions from time to time:


S.U.: "Can you IPL the mainframe for me? One of my files is stuck
in a process."


Me: "Oh sure, IBM puts that button right on the desk of _every_
level one agent in this here Northeast Support Center."


S.U.: "What? You can't do that?"


Me: "If I went within thirty feet of the IPL button on the
monster, I'd probably get shot."


S.U.: "Shit."


Me: "How about, I just kill the stuck process for you instead?"


S.U.: <exceedingly alarmed> "What?! You can kill my
processes?!?!"


Me: <bang head on keyboard> <mutter> "..no, we just reboot an
entire fucking mainframe and drop about 50,000 users every time a
luser sticks a fucking process, puss-for-brains!" </mutter> 


S.U: "What?"


Me: "um, sure, it's much more convenient for all the other users
accessing the same machine."


S.U: "Well, I don't like that at all! Let me speak to your
supervisor..."


<sigh> Those were the days.


-- 
Steve