Re: WMK - yet again (was: RW - yet again)

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:22:31 GMT, "William M. Klein"
<wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:

>I need to correct my *partial* quote of RW's original statement.  The full
>sentence was
>
>"Excepting two years during Y2K, I haven't touched a mainframe in 20 years.
"
>
>However, I hardly think that Y2K programming (remediation) would qualify on
e for
>commenting on *CURRENT* mainframe technology for doing credit card or insur
ance
>processing.

One year was Y2K remediation, the other was insurance processing.
During the intervening 14 years, there were advances in hardware
technology but little change in software where I worked.

IBM has done great things in the last ten years. They weren't in
evidence in the legacy shops I saw, which operated as though nothing
had changed in 20 years.

RW is not a legit Cobol subject .. unless I've been elected to some
Cobol Hall of Fame.