The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3875

I didn't misread what you wrote.

I know. There is also a good way to train them. The key was timesharing and allowing them to shut their office and make the stupid mistakes all newbies make.

What they need is a tool that does not require 100 hr-day wrestling to get their real work done. VMS provided this service. In addition, when help was needed, it provided it but ONLY when requested. That is what delivery of computing services is supposed to be. All the biz has now is crap and this includes the beloved Unix...so far. It'll take Unix about 5? years to catch up, iff the tradeoffs are for timesharing and delivery of computing services. If it starts to favor presenting pretty pictures instead of real work, it'll be in the same category as micpoo.

Of course. They are ones who do the stuff first in the history of mankind. That's why they need a tool that requires 0% wrestling and 100% delivery of services with help only when requested.

Haven't I been saying this for 10 years? Everytime I wrote the phrase "small computer thinking" I was talking about this woodenheadedness.

We knew that. But we couldn't fix the arrogance.

And that's why not many people have access to that computing service. Crays were not designed for data processing. The were compute devices and should have been used as such.

Gates does not learn from mistakes. This is his arrogance; he believes he knows better than everybody else.

BAH