[geeks] Kids today!

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

> I've always thought that the way colleges are, giving students a
> screaming fast machine which runs even bloated code fast, is wrong.

<snip>

> I learned at first on IBM 4381's, Prime 9955, and Sun '020 systems,
> most of them with a dozen users or more.  If you wrote things like
> you see now, no one would have been able to do work.

Mainframe O/Ss, like MVS (or it is now what, z/OS?) had a great
feature, every time you issue a system call, every other process get
thte chance to execute. They also have job classes, with usage profiles
that limit the amout of system you can use. The difference is, I think,
that MVS-type O/Ss were desigend to tarack usage for $$, *nix, other
"workgroup" O/Ss seem to have a Rodnet King apprach to sharing ("Can't
we all just get along.")...

BTW, I am nearly through the Unix Hater's Handbook - it's quite good in
parts...


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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