RE: TOO OT: serial console management system

["Magee, Fred \(MRC\)" <fred magee atk com>]

>Magee, Fred (MRC) wrote:
>> I echo that.  I started out in 1972 writing on a CDC 6600 "Super
>Computer".  I wonder how many of those it would take to equal a new 64
bit >"desktop"/
>> 
>John Summerfield replied:
>By the end of that year I was with another govt department using IBM 
>kit. About 75 we installed a IBm S/370 model 168, then IBM's finest 
>commercial computer, and in due course it was an MP it was running MVS
3.8.
>
>Hercules on a Pentium II runs MVS 3.8 faster. Much faster, and giving
it 
>16 Mb "real" storage (as much as the free versions of OS could support)

>is no sweat either.
>
>And now we are faced with the prospect of Itanic IBM-compatible
mainframes:
>http://www.itindepth.com/PSI_Ron_Interview.htm
>
>If _that_ works (ie it finds a market), there will be boxes about that 
>can do serious (gigabytes/sec) disk  I/O _and_ serious CPU work.
>

That sounds eerily familiar, John.

I went to work for the State of New Mexico in 1976.  We had an IBM
370/168 with 4MB Main memory.  The largest partition was 128K.  This for
perspective for the younger members of the list.  My project grew to
need 256K and it took months to get a new partition defined for me.

Ain't time and the computer industry wonderful!!!