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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Was the 360 badly-designed?  (was Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC)
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 11:07:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 11:07:25 1987
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gwl@rruxa.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes:
> I will not argue the architecture design issues.  The 360 was the
> top of the line when it was introduced.  I worked with one from 1980
> thru 1983 and from a software development environment point of view 
> (VM/CMS) it was terrible.  UNIX is such a far superior programming 
> environment to CMS that there is NO ARGUMENT here.

Eh?  Here we're arguing about hardware architecture, and this guy
starts arguing OSs architecture.  Do you *really* mean '360', or do
you really mean 'the software that's usually run on 360s'?  After all,
you can get Un*x for 360s now, and it looks just about like any other
Un*x.  (And if you went to the work, you could port OS/360 to the
Vax!)

yours for linguistic purity,

Dale
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