[ale] OT: How different is z/OS from Linux/Unix?
Geoffrey
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Mon Mar 8 20:03:28 EST 2010
Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 21:16 -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
>> I used to know some guys who could look at the 1 and 0's that were
>> saved at each clock cycle in the cpus and tell you what operation the
>> computer was doing and if it was working. Still blows my mind.
>
> It is called necessity.
>
> Think about us that started with Linux near the beginning. There were
> no GUI configuration programs. There was no Ubuntu to make most of the
> hardware just work. We used vi to configure X. We compiled a kernel
> specific to our computer. Out of necessity we became masters of the OS
> and today, now that Linux is basically a walk in the park, it was a huge
> benefit to us. When the "easy to use" disiti fails to be plug-n-play we
> can usually work around it.
Yes, I remember calculating mode lines for my X configuration. ;)
--
Until later, Geoffrey
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