vm/370 b*llsh*t

[BostonU SysMgr]

if I may put my 2 cents in [I always do I guess] the
ONLY thing wrong with IBM is their brain-damaged development
environment (read: software in general.) We have
an IBM3081D here for academic use. Consider, it's
a dual processor system with about 15MIPS, 50-100MBytes/sec
of disk bandwidth and 17.5GB of disk. We run >14,000 user
accounts usually >250 at a time with good response.

Consider, at night when the machine is unloaded I can
push thru about 1/3 to 1/4 of a CRAY-I without any
administrative hassles (it's free to the community.)
Our graphics and physics people couldn't live without it
nor (especially) WITH any box that dec makes (they own
vaxen but not for crunching.)
And need I even talk about IBM's rep for service
and uptime?
What's wrong is IBM's software (hey, I cut my teeth at
Cornell with MVT/HASP on punchcards.) We have quite a
good C-compiler with most V7 calls emulated.
I guess in general (IBM,DEC etc) companies that build
great hardware build mediocre software (and maybe vice versa.)
I love DEC's machines dearly because they are designed
to fit within reasonably sized POLITICAL domains which is
critical and they work and are flexible.

I agree with MRC, onwards to great UNIX on VM/370!!

	-Barry Shein, Boston University