Re: OO and IBM z series COBOL was Re: Discussions of COBOLphilospphy

"Rick Smith" <ricksmith@mfi.net> wrote in message
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> I chose the motherboard because it was the only one
> they had with a printer port, others would have required
> me to replace my printers with USB devices. The P4
> came with the motherboard. Though seemingly unrelated,
> my need for a printer port resulted in my COBOL
> programs running slower!

I was surprised to see this, Rick. The local equivalent of Radio Shack (Dick
Smith Electronics) here, sells conversion cables to port  the old D9 serial
ports to USB. Is it a parallel or serial printer? Some printers can take
firewire or infrared and I have found both of these to be useful. Firewire
is superb.
>
> The upside is that, with half the CPU idle most of the
> time, the response time for starting and while running
> a second task is fantastic!
>
Every cloud has a silver lining :-)

Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."